TY - BOOK AU - Ho,Clara Wing-chung AU - Mak,Ricardo King Sang AU - Tam,Yue-him TI - Voyages, migration, and the maritime world: on China's global historical role SN - 978-3-11-058507-0 U1 - 303.48251 23E PY - 2018/// CY - Berlin PB - De Gruyter KW - China / Foreign relations / History KW - Navigation / China / History N1 - World/global history and the positionality of historians / Haneda Masashi -- The world in the year 1000 : the view from Beijing / Valerie Hansen -- The emergence of organized water transport in early China : its social and geographical contexts / Lei Chinhau -- Cultural interactions throughout the ancient South China Sea / Li Kin-Sum Sammy -- The role of Vietnam in China's foreign relations / Han Xiaorong -- Advantages of Chinese navigators during the 15th-18th centuries / Chen Kuo-tung -- The pearl by the Bohai Sea : Qinhuangdao in the early modern period / Ronald Chung-Yam Po -- Smuggling and legal pluralism on the China coast : the rise and demise of the joint investigation rules, 1864-1934 / Philip Thai -- Beyond tariffs and duties : the Chinese maritime customs service and its representations of China's maritime world c. 1912-49 / Donna Brunero -- International law and China's entry into the 'family of nations' : the question of forced migration and refugees / Glen Peterson -- At the edge of two worlds : rethinking the Portuguese diaspora in British Hong Kong / Catherine S. Chan -- The global migration of a Chinese family : Kwan Yuen-cheung and his descendants / Yung Ying-Yue N2 - "This volume is resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the global history. The following themes are covered: organized water transport, cultural interactions, navigators, port cities, smuggling, maritime customs service, foreign relations, migration and diasporas. Contributors include scholars in America, Asia, and Europe"-- ER -