7. The Pearl by the Bohai Sea: Qinhuangdao in the Early Modern Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Notes on Editors and Contributors 9
5. Introduction 13
6. Part I: Perspectives on the World
7. 1. World/Global History and the Positionality of Historians 23
8. 2. The World in the Year 1000: The View from Beijing 37
9. Part II: China’s Maritime World: From Ancient to Modern Times
10. 3. The Emergence of Organized Water Transport in Early China: Its Social and Geographical Contexts 45
11. 4. Cultural Interactions throughout the Ancient South China Sea 91
12. 5. The Role of Vietnam in China’s Foreign Relations 121
13. 6. Advantages of Chinese Navigators during the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 134
14. 7. The Pearl by the Bohai Sea: Qinhuangdao in the Early Modern Period 143
15. 8. Smuggling and Legal Pluralism on the China Coast: The Rise and Demise of the Joint Investigation Rules, 1864–1934 165
16. 9. Beyond Tariffs and Duties: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its Representations of China’s Maritime World c.1912–49 186
17. Part III: Migrations and the Travel of Ideas
18. 10. International Law and China’s Entry into the ‘Family of Nations’: The Question of Forced Migration and Refugees 207
19. 11. At the Edge of Two Worlds: Rethinking the Portuguese Diaspora in British Hong Kong 231
20. 12. The Global Migration of a Chinese Family: Kwan Yuen-cheung and His Descendants 243