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The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 - A Short History with Documents (Paperback)
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The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 - A Short History with Documents (Paperback)
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The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 exposes readers to the
little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to
nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of
documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese
piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the
world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of
Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Japanese sources-some
translated for the first time-to illustrate the complexity and
variety of piratical activities in Asian waters. These documents
include archival criminal cases and depositions of pirates and
victims, government reports and proclamations, memoirs of coastal
residents and pirate captives, and written and oral folklore handed
down for generations. The book also illuminates the important role
that pirates played in the political, economic, social, and
cultural transformations of early modern China and the world. An
historical perspective provides an important vantage point to
understand piracy as a recurring cyclical phenomenon inseparably
connected with the past.
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