Water Frontier Commerce and the Chinese in

This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the water frontier of the title. It repositions old state-centered histories to reveal the region as a single, multiethnic economic zone knit together by the itineraries of junk traders and by the activities of many southern Chinese, settlers, sojourners, and merchants, whose local significance it explores. In so doing, it pioneers a new, nationally-neutral way of perceiving this dynamic region.

List of Figures and Tables

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Preface

xi

1. The Water Frontier: An Introduction

1

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Li Tana

Part I: Permeable Frontiers: Chinese Trade and Traders in the Region

2. Chinese Trade and Southeast Asian Economic Expansion in the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: An Overview

21

(14)

Anthony Reid

3. Eighteenth-Century Chinese Pioneers on the Water Frontier of Indochina

35

(18)

Yumio Sakurai

4. The Junk Trade between South China and Nguyen Vietnam in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

53

(18)

James Kong Chin

Part II: Commercial Eddies and Flows

5. The Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Mekong Delta in the Regional Trade System

71

(14)

Li Tana

6. The Nguyen Dynasty's Policy toward Chinese on the Water Frontier in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

85

(16)

Choi Byung Wook

7. Siam and the Contest for Control of the Trans-Mekong Trading Networks from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries

101

(18)

Puangthong Rungswasdisab

8. Ships and Shipbuilding in the Mekong Delta, c. 1750-1840

119

(20)

Li Tana

Part III: Beyond the Water Frontier

9. Water World: Chinese and Vietnamese on the Riverine Water Frontier, from Ca Mau to Tonle Sap (c. 1850-1884)

139

(20)

Nola Cooke

10. The Internationalization of Chinese Revenue Farming Networks

159

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Carl A. Trocki

Appendix A: A "Coastal Route" from the Lower Mekong Delta to Terengganu

175

(16)

Geoff Wade

Appendix B: Glossary

191

(4)

Index

195

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About the Contributors

201

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Water Frontier Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880

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