Angela Schottenhammer
Biographic Data
| ID | 258430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Schottenhammer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Schottenhammer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOTTENHAMMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0952-7621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Some Insights into the Medical Situation on Board of Galleons Traveling across the Pacific Ocean in the Eighteenth Century
Crossing the early modern Pacific Ocean presented many challenges. This chapter seeks to provide some insights into the food provisions, diseases, and medical supplies found on board galleons. I will also discuss some aspects of transcultural medical knowledge transfer and introduce some results of our ongoing ERC AdG project transpacific
Dispersal, Adoption, Rejection: The Columbian Exchange and the West Pacific
The study of historic ecological exchange is a multidisciplinary pursuit between paleoecology, history, and archaeology. This special collection and introduction explore ecological exchange between approximately 1500 and 1700 CE in the West Pacific, specifically in the Japanese and Philippine Archipelagos as well as littoral China. Rather than focusing exclusively on the introduction of exotic flora and fauna, the introduction and collection emph…
China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE): Role and Content of Its Historical Access to the Outside World
The book investigates China’s relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 CE. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been neglected in research on the history of China’s relations with the outside world. The author examines, for example, issue of 'imperialism' in imperial China, t…
Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World
Consolidating Southeast Asia and the Meaning of Force in History: Pax Ming and the Case of Chen Zuyi 陳祖義
Many Chinese historians and politicians consider the Zheng He expeditions as voyages meant to establish peaceful relations with foreign countries. Although, in contrast with European overseas expansion, it was not in the interest of the Chinese emperor and his government to colonialize foreign countries, this does not mean that relations were peaceful. Subordination of neighbouring countries to the Ming court and their acceptance of Ming China’s …
Introductory Note by Editor-in-chief Angela Schottenhammer
East Asia’s Other New World, China and the Viceroyalty of Peru: A Neglected Aspect of Early Modern Maritime History
At least officially, the Chinese government showed little to no interest in the Asia-Pacific region. We also know very little about Chinese state interference except for attempts to fight against piracy in the Southeast Asian waters. This article will consequently address and survey a neglected aspect of China’s maritime history, namely China’s (indirect) relationship with the Viceroyalty of Peru, its capital Lima (= Ciudad de los Reyes), and its…
Peruvian balsam: An Example of Transoceanic Transfer of Medicinal Knowledge
BackgroundConnections between China and the new Spanish colonies in America are known for an exchange of silver for silks and porcelains. That also medicinal drugs and medicinal knowledge crossed the Pacific Ocean is hardly known or discussed.Myroxylon balsamum(L.) Harms var.pereirae(Royle) Harms ("New World" or "Peruvian balsam") is a botanical balsam that has a long history of medicinal use, particularly as antiseptic and for wound healing. Exc…
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I: Commercial Structures and Exchanges
"This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World--the world's first "global economy"--from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findi…
Imperial Maritime China
Imperial China has a long-standing, multifaceted, and interesting imperial maritime history. Of particular importance in this context are the commercial dimensions of China’s maritime contacts with the outside world. From approximately the 7th century until Yuan 元 times (1279–1367), China even developed as a commercial maritime power, although its maritime trade was, until the late 11th century, basically dominated by foreign merchants. During th…
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies
Ming Loyalists in Southeast Asia: As Perceived Through Various Asian and European Records, written by Claudine Salmon, 2014
Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A History of Early Muzhiming by Timothy M. Davis
Reviewed by: Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A History of Early Muzhiming by Timothy M. Davis Angela Schottenhammer Timothy M. Davis. Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A History of Early Muzhiming. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xiii + 414 pages, 4 tables, 35 figures, 2 appendices, index. $170, €128 (cloth). ISBN 978-9-0043-0641-7. This volume provides readers with a good general…
China's Gate to the Indian Ocean: Iranian and Arab Long-Distance Traders
sponsorship: This study is part of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative project sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It is also part of the project "Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China" sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Foundation since January 2014. I thank John Chaffee for sharing his book manuscript, Geoff Wade for his comm…
China’s Gate to the South: Iranian and Arab Merchant Networks in Guangzhou During the Tang-Song Transition (c.750–1050), Part Ii: 900–c.1050
In a world of tumult many courtiers [sic] of the Middle Kingdom journeyed to the far reaches of Lingnan in search of sanctuary. There were famous courtiers banished for life in the far south during Tang times who often left behind survivors; or officials on recent assignment who encountered tumult that impeded their safe passage back north -these are the sorts of persons to become itinerants beyond the Lingnan Mountains 1 * Part of this contribut…
Empire and Periphery? The Qing Empire’s Relations with Japan and the Ryūkyūs (1644–c. 1800), a Comparison
Analysing Qing China’s relations with her neighbours, a distinction between her continental and maritime border space is evident. The Qing emperors were extremely alert towards their continental borders undertaking military intervention when they considered other countries a threat to them. While great parts of formerly non-Chinese territories in Central Asia were integrated into the Chinese empire and their peoples subdued by military force, mar…
The “China Seas” in world history: A general outline of the role of Chinese and East Asian maritime space from its origins to c. 1800
Through the East Asian waters its neighbouring countries have since early times on maintained networks of trade and exchange relations. Historically, these waters constituted not only a kind of border or natural barrier but from very early times on also a medium facilitating all kinds of exchanges and human activities, a medium through which in particular private merchants but also governments and official institutions established contacts with t…
Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century (review)
Reviewed by: Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century Angela Schottenhammer Derek Heng. Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century. Ohio: Centre for International Studies, Ohio University, 2009. Pp. xvi, 286. $28 (paper back). ISBN 9780896802711. I can only agree with the assessment of John W. Chaffee who in a brief statement on the present volume said that Derek Heng’s study i…
La Méditerranée asiatique: Villes portuaires et réseaux marchands en Chine, au Japon et en Asie du Sud-Est, XVI e -XXI e siècle
Short Notices
Corredores y "gremios" ( huiguan 會館 ) en el comercio marítimo de China con sus vecinos del este durante las dinastías Ming y Qing
Cuáles fueron las estructuras organizacionales del comercio marítimo de China con sus vecinos del este, y cuál fue la naturaleza de la relación entre los mecanismos de control comercial del gobierno y las empresas privadas que participaron en este sector de la economía de mercado? ¿Qué tan importantes fueron las organizaciones particulares como los huiguan 會館 y los yahang 牙行? El artículo aborda estos temas y documenta las relaciones comerciales …
Pferde in Asien: Geschichte, Handel und Kultur
Horses in Late Imperial China and Maritime East Asia: An Introduction into Trade, Distribution, and other Aspects (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
A Buried Past: The Tomb Inscription (Muzhiming) and Official Biographies of Wang Chuzhi (863-923)
The present article investigates the tomb inscription of Wang Chuzhi (863-923), a military governor whose career spanned the end of the Tang and the beginning of the Five Dynasties. By comparing the inscription with representations of the deceased in official sources, the article reveals that the tomb inscription presents a critical attitude toward the moral standards of conventional historiography, and demonstrates a shifting moral geography in …
Japan-The Tiny Dwarf? Sino-Japanese Relations from the Kangxi to the Early Qianlong Reigns
The “China Seas” in world history: A general outline of the role of Chinese and East Asian maritime space from its origins to c. 1800
Through the East Asian waters its neighbouring countries have since early times on maintained networks of trade and exchange relations. Historically, these waters constituted not only a kind of border or natural barrier but from very early times on also a medium facilitating all kinds of exchanges and human activities, a medium through which in particular private merchants but also governments and official institutions established contacts with t…
China's Gate to the Indian Ocean: Iranian and Arab Long-Distance Traders
sponsorship: This study is part of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative project sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It is also part of the project "Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China" sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Foundation since January 2014. I thank John Chaffee for sharing his book manuscript, Geoff Wade for his comm…
China’s Gate to the South: Iranian and Arab Merchant Networks in Guangzhou During the Tang-Song Transition (c.750–1050), Part Ii: 900–c.1050
In a world of tumult many courtiers [sic] of the Middle Kingdom journeyed to the far reaches of Lingnan in search of sanctuary. There were famous courtiers banished for life in the far south during Tang times who often left behind survivors; or officials on recent assignment who encountered tumult that impeded their safe passage back north -these are the sorts of persons to become itinerants beyond the Lingnan Mountains 1 * Part of this contribut…
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I: Commercial Structures and Exchanges
"This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World--the world's first "global economy"--from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findi…
Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)
(2003). Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries) Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 24, The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, pp. 143-154
East Asia’s Other New World, China and the Viceroyalty of Peru: A Neglected Aspect of Early Modern Maritime History
At least officially, the Chinese government showed little to no interest in the Asia-Pacific region. We also know very little about Chinese state interference except for attempts to fight against piracy in the Southeast Asian waters. This article will consequently address and survey a neglected aspect of China’s maritime history, namely China’s (indirect) relationship with the Viceroyalty of Peru, its capital Lima (= Ciudad de los Reyes), and its…
Peruvian balsam: An Example of Transoceanic Transfer of Medicinal Knowledge
BackgroundConnections between China and the new Spanish colonies in America are known for an exchange of silver for silks and porcelains. That also medicinal drugs and medicinal knowledge crossed the Pacific Ocean is hardly known or discussed.Myroxylon balsamum(L.) Harms var.pereirae(Royle) Harms ("New World" or "Peruvian balsam") is a botanical balsam that has a long history of medicinal use, particularly as antiseptic and for wound healing. Exc…
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies
The Emporium of the World: Maritime Quanzhou, 1000–-1400
This volume, by offering a score of new insights derived from a wide variety of recent archaeological and textual sources, bring to life an important overseas trading port in Southeast Asia: Quanzhou. During the Song and Yuan dynasties active official and unofficial engagement in trade had formative effects on the development of the maritime trade of Quanzhou and its social and economic position both regionally and supraregionally. In the first p…
The Emporium of the world: Maritime Quanzhou, 1000–1400
This volume, by offering a score of new insights derived from a wide variety of recent archaeological and textual sources, bring to life an important overseas trading port in Southeast Asia: Quanzhou. During the Song and Yuan dynasties active official and unofficial engagement in trade had formative effects on the development of the maritime trade of Quanzhou and its social and economic position both regionally and supraregionally. In the first p…
Third International Conference on Slavery, Unfree Labour & Revolt in Asia and the Indian Ocean Region: Avignon, 4-6 October 2001
In 2001, the third Colloque international sur l’esclavage was held in Avignon, France, on the theme “Slavery, Unfree Labour & Revolt in Asia and the Indian Ocean Region.” It attracted 46 participants from seventeen countries (France, Ethiopia, the United States, South Korea, Mauritius, Thailand, Australia, Nepal, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Canada, Senegal, Portugal, India, Tanzania, and South Africa). They included economists, anthropolo…
Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)
(2003). Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries) Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 24, The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, pp. 143-154
The Role of Metals and the Impact of the Introduction of Huizi Paper Notes in Quanzhou on the Development of Maritime Trade in the Song Period
Japan-The Tiny Dwarf? Sino-Japanese Relations from the Kangxi to the Early Qianlong Reigns
Pferde in Asien: Geschichte, Handel und Kultur
Horses in Late Imperial China and Maritime East Asia: An Introduction into Trade, Distribution, and other Aspects (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
A Buried Past: The Tomb Inscription (Muzhiming) and Official Biographies of Wang Chuzhi (863-923)
The present article investigates the tomb inscription of Wang Chuzhi (863-923), a military governor whose career spanned the end of the Tang and the beginning of the Five Dynasties. By comparing the inscription with representations of the deceased in official sources, the article reveals that the tomb inscription presents a critical attitude toward the moral standards of conventional historiography, and demonstrates a shifting moral geography in …
La Méditerranée asiatique: Villes portuaires et réseaux marchands en Chine, au Japon et en Asie du Sud-Est, XVI e -XXI e siècle
Short Notices
Corredores y "gremios" ( huiguan 會館 ) en el comercio marítimo de China con sus vecinos del este durante las dinastías Ming y Qing
Cuáles fueron las estructuras organizacionales del comercio marítimo de China con sus vecinos del este, y cuál fue la naturaleza de la relación entre los mecanismos de control comercial del gobierno y las empresas privadas que participaron en este sector de la economía de mercado? ¿Qué tan importantes fueron las organizaciones particulares como los huiguan 會館 y los yahang 牙行? El artículo aborda estos temas y documenta las relaciones comerciales …
Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century (review)
Reviewed by: Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century Angela Schottenhammer Derek Heng. Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century. Ohio: Centre for International Studies, Ohio University, 2009. Pp. xvi, 286. $28 (paper back). ISBN 9780896802711. I can only agree with the assessment of John W. Chaffee who in a brief statement on the present volume said that Derek Heng’s study i…
The “China Seas” in world history: A general outline of the role of Chinese and East Asian maritime space from its origins to c. 1800
Through the East Asian waters its neighbouring countries have since early times on maintained networks of trade and exchange relations. Historically, these waters constituted not only a kind of border or natural barrier but from very early times on also a medium facilitating all kinds of exchanges and human activities, a medium through which in particular private merchants but also governments and official institutions established contacts with t…
Empire and Periphery? The Qing Empire’s Relations with Japan and the Ryūkyūs (1644–c. 1800), a Comparison
Analysing Qing China’s relations with her neighbours, a distinction between her continental and maritime border space is evident. The Qing emperors were extremely alert towards their continental borders undertaking military intervention when they considered other countries a threat to them. While great parts of formerly non-Chinese territories in Central Asia were integrated into the Chinese empire and their peoples subdued by military force, mar…
China’s Gate to the South: Iranian and Arab Merchant Networks in Guangzhou During the Tang-Song Transition (c.750–1050), Part Ii: 900–c.1050
In a world of tumult many courtiers [sic] of the Middle Kingdom journeyed to the far reaches of Lingnan in search of sanctuary. There were famous courtiers banished for life in the far south during Tang times who often left behind survivors; or officials on recent assignment who encountered tumult that impeded their safe passage back north -these are the sorts of persons to become itinerants beyond the Lingnan Mountains 1 * Part of this contribut…
China's Gate to the Indian Ocean: Iranian and Arab Long-Distance Traders
sponsorship: This study is part of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative project sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It is also part of the project "Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China" sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Foundation since January 2014. I thank John Chaffee for sharing his book manuscript, Geoff Wade for his comm…
Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A History of Early Muzhiming by Timothy M. Davis
Reviewed by: Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A History of Early Muzhiming by Timothy M. Davis Angela Schottenhammer Timothy M. Davis. Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China: A History of Early Muzhiming. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xiii + 414 pages, 4 tables, 35 figures, 2 appendices, index. $170, €128 (cloth). ISBN 978-9-0043-0641-7. This volume provides readers with a good general…
Ming Loyalists in Southeast Asia: As Perceived Through Various Asian and European Records, written by Claudine Salmon, 2014
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I: Commercial Structures and Exchanges
"This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World--the world's first "global economy"--from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findi…
Imperial Maritime China
Imperial China has a long-standing, multifaceted, and interesting imperial maritime history. Of particular importance in this context are the commercial dimensions of China’s maritime contacts with the outside world. From approximately the 7th century until Yuan 元 times (1279–1367), China even developed as a commercial maritime power, although its maritime trade was, until the late 11th century, basically dominated by foreign merchants. During th…
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies
East Asia’s Other New World, China and the Viceroyalty of Peru: A Neglected Aspect of Early Modern Maritime History
At least officially, the Chinese government showed little to no interest in the Asia-Pacific region. We also know very little about Chinese state interference except for attempts to fight against piracy in the Southeast Asian waters. This article will consequently address and survey a neglected aspect of China’s maritime history, namely China’s (indirect) relationship with the Viceroyalty of Peru, its capital Lima (= Ciudad de los Reyes), and its…
Peruvian balsam: An Example of Transoceanic Transfer of Medicinal Knowledge
BackgroundConnections between China and the new Spanish colonies in America are known for an exchange of silver for silks and porcelains. That also medicinal drugs and medicinal knowledge crossed the Pacific Ocean is hardly known or discussed.Myroxylon balsamum(L.) Harms var.pereirae(Royle) Harms ("New World" or "Peruvian balsam") is a botanical balsam that has a long history of medicinal use, particularly as antiseptic and for wound healing. Exc…
Consolidating Southeast Asia and the Meaning of Force in History: Pax Ming and the Case of Chen Zuyi 陳祖義
Many Chinese historians and politicians consider the Zheng He expeditions as voyages meant to establish peaceful relations with foreign countries. Although, in contrast with European overseas expansion, it was not in the interest of the Chinese emperor and his government to colonialize foreign countries, this does not mean that relations were peaceful. Subordination of neighbouring countries to the Ming court and their acceptance of Ming China’s …
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