Chinese Engagement with the Indian Ocean during the Song,Yuan, and Ming Dynasties (Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20070157
AutoresGeoff Wade (0000-0001-5661-7139, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Páginas55-81
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoTrade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-137-56624-9_4
OpenAlexW2476769056
ISBN9781137566249
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas25

The premodern interactions between China and the Indian Ocean (including, for purposes here, the eastern extension of the Indian Ocean comprising the seas of Southeast Asia) were, by definition, exclusively by sea. The early migrations of the Austronesian peoples would have been some of the earliest voyages from the Eurasian continent to the seas of Southeast Asia and beyond, but these are obviously not attested by any historical source. The archaeological record is the only way to demonstrate these voyages. It is likely that the maritime and coastal peoples of East Asia and those of the Indian Ocean have been in contact with each other for millennia. However, this chapter will restrict itself to the historical maritime links and interactions between the successive polities of China and those of the Indian Ocean and maritime Southeast Asia over the period from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. This was a time when Chinese seafaring came of age, with Lo Jung-pang, one of the doyens of East Asia maritime history, opining, “Indeed, during the three centuries from the Southern Song to the early Ming period, the maritime and overseas activities of the Chinese people were so great in extent and consequence that China then was more of a sea power than a land power” (Lo 2012, pp. xiv–xv)

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · China · East Asia · Geography · Indian ocean · Period (music) · Southeast asia · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Oceanography