Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers – Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas

Robert Antony author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Hong Kong University Press

Published:1st Jun '10

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This book examines the extent, diffusion, and characteristics of piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas over the past six centuries. The chapters in this book argue that violence and clandestine trade played significant roles in the development of modern Asian societies.

This interesting anthology brings together the latest research on Asian piracy - from Japan and the Riau and Philippine islands to Singapore and China - between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries by scholars from as far afield as the US, the PRC (Hong Kong and Macau), Australia, British Columbia, France, Taiwan, and Japan. -- Dian Murray, University of Notre Dame

ISBN: 9789888028115

Dimensions: 237mm x 165mm x 21mm

Weight: 490g

220 pages