Format:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047421696
Series Statement:
TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction Ser. v.v. 5
Content:
Against the background of a regional crisis caused by dynastic change in China and the closure of Japan in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonkin rose to the fore as the major silk producing and exporting region in East Asia. Based on a wealth of so far unused primary sources from the Dutch East India Company archives, this monograph explains how Dutch and Chinese maritime traders played a critical role in Tonkin's dramatic emergence as a trading power.
Content:
CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Explanation for units of measurement -- Glossary -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION -- The subject -- Tonkin in the intra-Asian trade of the VOC -- Source materials and analytical framework -- PART ONE: THE SETTING -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Political background -- 1. Vietnamese maritime trade prior to 1527 -- The Hundred Viets and the Vietnamese -- The Chinese colonization of northern Vietnam, 179 BC-AD 905 -- Independent Dai Viet and the state monopoly of foreign trade, 1010-1527 -- 2. Incessant conflicts and political schisms, 1527-1672 -- Chapter Two: Economic background -- 1. Handicraft industries and export commodities -- Raw silk and piece-goods -- Ceramics -- Other miscellaneous exports -- 2. New trends in foreign trade -- A more open trend in foreign trade, the 1500s -- The birth of the seventeenth-century commercial system -- Complicated trading conditions -- 3. Foreign merchants -- The Chinese -- The Japanese -- The Portuguese -- The Dutch -- The English -- Other foreign merchants -- Concluding remarks -- PART TWO: THE POLITICAL RELATIONS -- Introduction -- Chapter Three: Intimate phases -- 1. The abortive Dutch trade with Quinam, 1601-1638 -- 2. The Dutch arrival in Tonkin, 1637 -- 3. Ideological struggles and belligerent decisions, 1637-1643 -- Military or peaceful involvement, 1637-1641? -- Tension escalating in Quinam, 1642 -- The Dutch military defeats, 1642-1643 -- 4. The Quinam interlude and frigid relations with Tonkin, 1644-1651 -- The VOC's unilateral war with Quinam, 1644-1651 -- The peace agreement with Quinam, 1651 -- Frigid relations with the Trịnh, 1644-1647 -- The relationship deteriorated, 1647-1651 -- Chapter Four: Vicissitudes, decline and the final end -- 1. Revival of the relationship, 1651-1660 -- Verstegen's commission to Tonkin, 1651.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004156012
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004156012
Language:
English
URL:
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