Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Plates xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Writings
7. 1. Writing a Decentered World Regional History 13
8. Part II: Imaginaries
9. 2. An Indian Imaginary 37
10. 3. Arab Geographic Imaginaries 63
11. 4. Geographic Imaginaries from the Chinese Tradition 85
12. 5. Japanese Geographic Imaginaries: The Tokugawa Invention of a Japan-Centered International Order 113
13. 6. Geographic Imaginaries of an Austral Land 132
14. Part III: Evidence
15. 7. Connecting Up the Dots on Global Port Cities 153
16. 8. The Evidence from Marine Archaeology 177
17. Part IV: Examples/Alternative Realms
18. 9. The Ryukyu Trade Networks Revisited 197
19. 10. Configuring Macau on the World Map 212
20. Afterword 233
21. References 243
22. Index 274