1.Yuanfei Wang, Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
2.Bert Becker, France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime competition and Imperial Power. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
1.Yuanfei Wang, Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Description
In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories, and fiction of the period jointly narrate pirates and China’s Orient in maritime Asia. Wang shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the “other”: foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors. At the center of the discourses, early modern concepts of empire, race, and authenticity were intensively negotiated. Connecting late Ming literature to the global maritime world, Writing Pirates expands current discussions of Chinese diaspora and debates on Sinophone language and identity.
2.Bert Becker, France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime competition and Imperial Power. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern and western shores, the ‘Asian Mediterranean’ was for almost a century a crucible of power and an axis of economic struggle for coastal shipping companies from various nations. Merchant steamers shipped cargoes and passengers between ports of the region. Hong Kong, the global port city, and the colonial ports of Saigon and Haiphong developed into major hubs for the flow of goods and people, while Guangzhouwan survived as an almost forgotten outpost of Indochina. While previous research in this field has largely remained within the confines of colonial history, this book uses the examples of French and German companies operating in the South China Sea to demonstrate the extent to which transnational actors and business networks interacted with imperial power and the process of globalisation.
資料來源：
1.University of Michigan Press: https://www.press.umich.edu/11564671/writing_pirates
2.Palgrave Macmillan: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030526030
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