Cotton, Copper, and Caravans: Trade and the Transformation of Southwest China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction. The Arc of Historical Commercial Relations between China and Southeast Asia 1
7. Part I Theoretical/Longue Durée
8. Chinese on the Mining Frontier in Southeast Asia 21
9. Cotton, Copper, and Caravans: Trade and the Transformation of Southwest China 37
10. The Social Life of Chinese Labor 62
11. Opium as a Commodity in the Chinese Nanyang Trade 84
12. Part II Precolonial
13. The Lidai Baoan and the Ryukyu Maritime Tributary Trade Network with China and Southeast Asia, the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 107
14. Cochinchinese Coin Casting and Circulating in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia 130
15. Import of Prosperity: Luxurious Items Imported from China to Siam during the Thonburi and Early Rattanakosin Periods (1767–1854) 149
16. A Sino-Indonesian Commodity Chain: The Trade in Tortoiseshell in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 172
17. Part III Early Colonial
18. From Baoshi to Feicui Qing-Burmese Gem Trade, c. 1644–1800 203
19. Junks to Java: Chinese Shipping to the Nanyang in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 221
20. Chinese Books and Printing in: the Early Spanish Philippines 259
21. The End of the “Age of Commerce”? Javanese Cotton Trade Industry from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries 283
22. Part IV High Colonial
23. The Power of Culture and Its Limits: Taiwanese Merchants’ Asian Commodity Flows, 1895–1945 305
24. Rice Trade and Chinese Rice Millers in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries: The Case of British Malaya 336
25. Tonle Sap Processed Fish: From Khmer Subsistence Staple to Colonial Export Commodity 360
26. Moses’s Rod: The Bible as a Commodity in Southeast Asia and China 380
27. Part V Postcolonial
28. Market Price, Labor Input, and Relation of Production in Sarawak’s Edible Birds’ Nest Trade 407
29. A Sino-Southeast Asian Circuit: Ethnohistories of the Marine Goods Trade 432
30. From a Shiji Episode to the Forbidden Jade Trade during the Socialist Regime in Burma 455
31. Conflict Timber along the China-Burma Border: Connecting the Global Timber Consumer with Violent Extraction Sites 480
32. Contributors 507
33. Index 509