The Tongking Gulf Through History.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Tongking Gulf Through History: A Geopolitical Overview -- PART I. THE JIAOZHI ERA IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY -- 1. Textile Crafts in the Gulf of Tongking: The Intersection of Archaeology and History -- 2. Jiaozhi (Giao Chi) in the Han Period Tongking Gulf -- 3. Han Period Glass Vessels in the Early Tongking Gulf Region -- 4. "The People in Between": The Li and Lao from the Han to the Sui -- PART II. THE JIAOZHI OCEAN AND BEYOND (TENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES) -- 5. "Slipping Through Holes": The Late Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Sino-Vietnamese Coastal Frontier as a Subaltern Trade Network -- 6. Vân Ðôn, the "Mac Gap," and the End of the Jiaozhi Ocean System: Trade and State in Ðai Viet, Circa 1450-1550 -- 7. The Trading Environment and the Failure of Tongking's Mid-Seventeenth-Century Commercial Resurgence -- 8. Chinese "Political Pirates" in the Seventeenth-Century Gulf of Tongking -- 9. Chinese Merchants and Mariners in Nineteenth-Century Tongking -- Notes -- Glossary -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

This two-thousand-year history of the Tongking Gulf draws on fresh archaeological and historical insights to bridge a significant gap in studies on Southeast Asia and China.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.