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Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810: A Short History with Documents

Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810: A Short History with Documents

Antony, Robert J.

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Chinese HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1538161532
ISBN13: 9781538161531
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Mar 30 2022
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Japanese sources--some translated for the first time--to illustrate the complexity and variety of piratical activities in Asian waters. These documents include archival criminal cases and depositions of pirates and victims, government reports and proclamations, memoirs of coastal residents and pirate captives, and written and oral folklore handed down for generations. The book also illuminates the important role that pirates played in the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations of early modern China and the world. An historical perspective provides an important vantage point to understand piracy as a recurring cyclical phenomenon inseparably connected with the past.

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