11. Bridging the Bipolar: Zheng Jing’s Decade on Taiwan, 1663–1673

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The East Asian Maritime Realm in Global History, 1500–1700 1
5. 1. Neither Here nor There: Trade, Piracy, and the “Space Between” in Early Modern East Asia 28
6. 2. Envoys and Escorts: Representation and Performance among Koxinga’s Japanese Pirate Ancestors 38
7. 3. Friend or Foe? Intercultural Diplomacy between Momoyama Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s 65
8. 4. Maps, Calendars, and Diagrams: Space and Time in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia 86
9. 5. Yiguan’s Origins: Clues from Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin Sources 114
10. 6. Between Bureaucrats and Bandits: The Rise of Zheng Zhilong and His Organization, the Zheng Ministry (Zheng Bu) 132
11. 7. The Zheng Regime and the Tokugawa Bakufu: Asking for Japanese Intervention 156
12. 8. Determining the Law of the Sea: The Long History of the Breukelen Case, 1657–1662 181
13. 9. Dreams in the Chinese Periphery: Victorio Riccio and Zheng Chenggong’s Regime 202
14. 10. Shame and Scandal in the Family: Dutch Eavesdropping on the Zheng Lineage 226
15. 11. Bridging the Bipolar: Zheng Jing’s Decade on Taiwan, 1663–1673 238
16. 12. The Burning Shore: Fujian and the Coastal Depopulation, 1661–1683 260
17. 13. Admiral Shi Lang’s Secret Proposal to Return Taiwan to the VOC 290
18. 14. Trade, Piracy, and Resistance in the Gulf of Tonkin in the Seventeenth Century 312
19. 15. Koxinga and His Maritime Regime in the Popular Historical Writings of Post–Cold War Taiwan 335
20. 16. Japan in the Chinese Tribute System 353
21. Glossary 365
22. Contributors 373
23. Index 375