Tongking Gulf Through History

Nola Cooke is English-Language Editor of the journal Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora at The Australian National University. Li Tana is Senior Fellow at the School of Culture, History, and Language and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora at The Australian National University. James A. Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

• PrefaceIntroduction. The Tongking Gulf Through History: A Geopolitical Overview-Li TanaPART I. THE JIAOZHI ERA IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY1. Textile Crafts in the Gulf of Tongking: The Intersection of Archaeology and History-Judith Cameron2. Jiaozhi (Giao Chi) in the Han Period Tongking Gulf-Li Tana3. Han Period Glass Vessels in the Early Tongking Gulf Region-Brigitte Borell4. "The People in Between": The Li and Lao from the Han to the Sui-Michael ChurchmanPART II. THE JIAOZHI OCEAN AND BEYOND (TENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES)5. "Slipping Through Holes": The Late Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Sino-Vietnamese Coastal Frontier as a Subaltern Trade Network-James A. Anderson6. Van Don, the "Mac Gap," and the End of the Jiaozhi Ocean System: Trade and State in Dai Viet, Circa 1450-1550-John K. Whitmore7. The Trading Environment and the Failure of Tongking's Mid-Seventeenth-Century Commercial Resurgence-Iioka Naoko8. Chinese "Political Pirates" in the Seventeenth-Century Gulf of Tongking-Niu Junkai and Li Qingxin9. Chinese Merchants and Mariners in Nineteenth-Century TongkingVu Duong Luan and Nola CookeNotesGlossaryList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"An informative picture of trade, economic, and political relationships throughout the Tongking Gulf over an extended period of time: approximately two thousand years. The well-researched essays each contribute fresh insights into the subject of maritime trade and premodern global connections in the region." (Erica Brindley, Pennsylvania State University) "So little has been written about the periods that this work covers, and no one has ever taken a regional approach like this. Hopefully this volume will inspire people to look more closely at this region and these periods." (Liam C. Kelley, University of Hawai'i)