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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.
Contents
Preface
PART I: NARRATIVE HISTORY
1 Piracy in China's Maritime World
2 Piracy in the Mid-Ming Dynasty (1520-1580)
3 Piracy during the Ming-Qing Transition (1620-1684)
4 Piracy in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (1775-1810)
5 The Significance of Piracy in China's History
PART II: DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
1 Piracy in the Mid-Ming Dynasty (1520-1580)
2 Piracy in the Ming-Qing Transition (1620-1684)
3 Piracy in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (1775-1810)
Chronology
Glossary
A Note on Chinese Documentary Evidence
References
Index
