1.高馬可(John M. Carroll) 著,林立偉譯,《帝國夾縫中的香港:華人精英與英國殖民者》。香港:香港大學出版社,2021。
2.Susan E. Schopp, Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842. Hong Kong University Press, 2020.
3.Paul A. Van Dyke, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842. Hong Kong University Press, 2020.
4.Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, Neelima Jeychandran, Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds. CRC Press, 2020.
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1.高馬可(John M. Carroll) 著,林立偉譯,《帝國夾縫中的香港:華人精英與英國殖民者》。
2.Susan E. Schopp, Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842.
Description
Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842 presents a rare and lively view of the French experience at Canton, and calls for a reappraisal of France’s role in that trade. France was one of the two most important Western powers in the eighteenth century, and was home to one of the three major European East India companies. Yet the nation is woefully underrepresented in Canton trade scholarship. Susan E. Schopp rescues the French from the sidelines, showing that they exerted a presence that, though closely watched by their rivals, is today largely unrecognized. Their contributions were diverse, ranging from finding new sea routes to inspiring the renovation of hong façades. Consequently, to ignore the French, or to dismiss them as simply “also-rans,” results in a skewed perception of the Canton system.
Schopp also demonstrates that while the most distinctive aspect of the French model of company trade was the dominant role of the state—indeed, the French East India Company has been memorably described as a “Versailles of trade”—this did not rule out a place for legitimate, and sometimes surprising, participation by the private sector. On the contrary: France’s commercial relations with China were inaugurated by private traders, and the popularity of the Canton trade spurred the eventual demise of the company model. Backed up by extensive archival work, Schopp’s work demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the Sino-European trade, and her book reveals an unparalleled passion for the role of seamanship in history.
Contents
Introduction 1
1. Chronological Overview of the French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842 7
2. A “Versailles of Trade”: The French Company Model of Sino-European Trade 25
3. East India Ships and Chop Boats 41
4. The Voyage and Sea Routes 55
5. The French Hong: The Physical Plant 73
6. The French Hong: Daily Work Life and Operations 95
7. Life Outside Work 109
8. Biographical Sketches 117
Conclusion 133
Appendices Appendix
1: French Trading Voyages to China, 1698–1842 135 Appendix
2: French Intra-Asian Trading Voyages to China, 1700–1803 158 Appendix
3: French Return Cargoes from China, 1766 161 Glossary 163
Bibliography 165
Index 187
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3.Paul A. Van Dyke, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842.
Description
Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how the Qing government treated foreigners when it controlled all trade in the Guangzhou port. Van Dyke reappraises the role of Whampoa in the system—a port twenty kilometres away from Guangzhou—and reassesses the government’s attitude towards foreigners, which was much more accommodating than previous research suggested. In fact, Van Dyke shows that foreigners were not bound by local laws and were given freedom of movement around Whampoa and Canton to the extent that they were treated with leniency even when found in off-limit places.
Whampoa and the Canton Trade recounts the lives of seamen who travelled half-way around the globe at great risk and lived through a historic period that would become the framework for subsequent encounters between China and the rest of the world. Were it not for the exchanges between the major powers and the Qing empire, the world—as we know it—would be a rather different place. Hence, Van Dyke’s command of data mining shows that Whampoa was a key pillar in the Canton System and, thus, in the making of the modern world economy.
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xx
Introduction: Whampoa and the Canton Trade 1
Chapter 1: Ship Data, Manipulation of Trade Figures, and British Dominance 14
Chapter 2: Anchoring, Careening, Commodores, and Signalling 39
Chapter 3: Bankshalls 64
Chapter 4: Healthcare, Injuries, Deaths, and Drunkenness 83
Chapter 5: Death Estimates, Burial Protocols, and Special Celebrations 108
Chapter 6: Crimes and Punishments 124
Chapter 7: Chinese Thefts 157
Chapter 8: Labour Market, Desertions, and Dismissals 176
Chapter 9: Protests, EIC Row Guard, Religious Services, and the Belvidere Mutiny 197
Chapter 10: Floating Brothels and ‘Unnatural Acts’ 220
Chapter 11: Disasters and Marine Insurance 238
Conclusion: The Story Is in the Details 254
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4.Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, Neelima Jeychandran, Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds.
Description
This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities scholarship, thus moving away from an area-based and geographical approach to Indian Ocean studies.
Contributors from a variety of disciplines focus on keywords such as relationality, space/place, quotidian practices, and new networks of memory and maps to offer original insights to reimagine the Indian Ocean. While the volume as a whole considers older histories, mobilities, and relationships between places in Indian Ocean worlds, it is centrally concerned with new connectivities and layered mappings forged in the lived experiences of individuals and communities today. The chapters are steeped in ethnographic, multi-modal, and other humanities methodologies that examine different sources besides historical archives and textual materials, including everyday life, cities, museums, performances, the built environment, media, personal narratives, food, medical practices, or scientific explorations.
An important contribution to several fields, this book will be of interest to academics of Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Asian linkages, inter-Asian exchanges, Afro-Arab crossroads, Asian studies, African studies, Anthropology, History, Geography, and International Relations.
Contents
Introduction: Many Worlds, Many Oceans, Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng’weno and Neelima Jeychandran
Part I Proximity and Distance
1. The Ends of the Indian Ocean: Notes on Boundaries and Affinities across Time, Jeremy Prestholdt
2. Indian Ocean Ontology: Nyerere, Memory, Place, May Joseph
3. The Littoral, the Container, and the Interface: Situating the Dry Port as an Indian Ocean Imaginary, Ishani Saraf
4. Seasons of Sail: The Monsoon, Kinship, and Labor in the Dhow Trade, Nidhi Mahajan
Part II Landscapes, Oceanscapes, and Practices
5. Elsewheres in the Indian Ocean: Spatio-Temporal Encounters and Imaginaries Beyond the Sea, Nethra Samarawickrema
6. Dicey Waterways: Evolving Networks and Contested Spatialities in Goa, Maya Costa-Pinto
7. Improvising Juba: Productive Precarity and Making the Present at the Edge of the Indian Ocean World, Christian J. Doll
8. Displacemaking with Shutki: Living with Dead, Dried Fish as Companions, Bidita Jawher Tithi
Part III Memory and Maps
9. Memory, Memorialization and "Heritage" in the Indian Ocean, Pedro Machado
10. Shorelines of Memory and Ports of Desire: Geography, Identity, and the Memory of Oceanic Trade in Mekran Coast (Balochistan), Hafeez Ahmed Jamali
11. The Ship and The Anchor: Shifting Cartographies of Affinity and Belonging Among Sikhs in Fiji, Nicole Ranganath
Part IV Methods and Disciplines
12. Bibi’s Uchungu: Eating, Bitterness, and Relationality across Indian Ocean Worlds, Laura A. Meek
13. Marfa Masti: Performing Shifting Indian Ocean Geographies, Pallavi Sriram
14. Exploring the "Unknown:" Indian Ocean Materiality as Method, Vivian Y. Choi
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資訊來源:
1-3: Hong Kong University Press
4: CRC Press