The Demography of Old Macao, 1555–1640

Ptak, Roderich

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“…In the Eastern Zone, during 1540, a base of credential trade had grown at the Shuangyu 雙嶼 port in the Zhoushan 舟山 islands, where Chinese smugglers, Portuguese private merchants and Japanese seafarers gathered to engage in trade during the 1540s and exchanged Chinese goods for Japanese silver and tropical products. The destruction of the smuggling base of Shuangyu by the Ming navy in 1548 brought about a further proliferation of raids and plunderers along the southeast coast (Sakuma 1992: 258-294;Ptak 1998;Zheng 2004: 127-184).…”

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Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

2018

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This series proposes a new geography of Global History research using Asian and Western sources, welcoming quality research and engaging outstanding scholarship from China, Europe and the Americas. Promoting academic excellence and critical intellectual analysis, it offers a rich source of global history research in sub-continental areas of Europe, Asia (notably China, Japan and the Philippines) and the Americas and aims to help understand the divergences and convergences between East and West. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. As an evangelical advocate for the inclusion of courses in global history for systems of higher education throughout the world, I strongly applaud the endeavours of two young Iberians, with posts at major universities in China and Japan, to persuade their East Asian colleagues to make real space in their curricula for an engagement with history that is 'truly global'.'Truly global' means that teaching and research in faculties of history should represent something much more profound, heuristic and modern than extensions to the histories of East Asian or European societies that includes hard-won knowledge of other countries and cultures. The editors and their distinguished colleagues conceive of global history as a challenge to obsolete, patriotic and centric histories of all kinds.Located as both editors are as foreign academics in cultures with ancient and strong national identities, their laudable mission has met with a different kind and quality of resistance to both the...

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“…9 By the 1540s maritime trade in China had become very active. Since the 1500s approximately one hundred and eighty Europeans (mainly Portuguese) were found to have stationed on the islands off the Chinese coast in the 1520s, and by the 1550s the number had increased to over six hundred, and to about one thousand by the 1620s (Chao 2005;Ljungstedt 1836;Ptak 1982). These groups formed a powerful alliance under the leadership of Wang Zhi-the most powerful merchant pirate at the time who allegedly had a fleet that numbered several hundreds and a crew attacks on economic development, as history is replete with anecdotal evidence that many coastal towns and cities that were once prosperous hardly ever revived after having been dealt a blow by the pirates (Geiss 1978;Lin 1987;Von Glahn 1996;Zheng 2001).…”

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“… 8 Before the Voyages of Discovery very few European traders travelled to China by sea. Since the 1500s approximately one hundred and eighty Europeans (mainly Portuguese) were found to have stationed on the islands off the Chinese coast in the 1520s, and by the 1550s the number had increased to over six hundred, and to about one thousand by the 1620s (Chao 2005; Ljungstedt 1836; Ptak 1982). …”

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Autarky and the Rise and Fall of Piracy in Ming China

Kung

2014

J. Econ. Hist.

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We examine the impact of rigorous trade suppression during 1550-1567 on the sharp rise of piracy in this period of Ming China. By analyzing a uniquely constructed historical data set, we find that the enforcement of a "sea (trade) ban" policy led to a rise in pirate attacks that was 1.3 times greater among the coastal prefectures more suitable for silk manufactures-our proxy for greater trade potential. Our study illuminates the conflicts in which China subsequently engaged with the Western powers, conflicts that eventually resulted in the forced abandonment of its long upheld autarkic principle.iracy was rampant in China between 1550 and 1567, during which time the number of pirate attacks topped 30 each year. This followed nearly two centuries when piracy had been rare with about one incident a year. 1 In these two difficult decades, the Chinese pirates stationed mainly on islands off the southeast coasts raided more than two-thirds of all coastal prefectures and occupied a third of them. 2 Chinese pirates plundered silk and other popular export items, in the process kidnapping, and even killing were common affairs (So 1975;Geiss 1978;Wills 1979). 3 The attacks were severe; they produced

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2014

Pacific Histories

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The Demography of Old Macao, 1555–1640

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