Voyages, migration, and the maritime world : on China's global historical role / edited by Clara Wing-chung Ho, Ricardo King-sang, Mak, and Yue-him Tam

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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