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Crossroads — Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, Vol. 16 (Oct. 2017), Special Issue The „Indo-Pacific“ Crossroads: The Asian Waters as Conduits of Knowledge, People, Cargoes, and Technologies Edited by Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER: Introductory Remarks: What Is the „Indo-Pacific“? [pp. 83–98] Ubaldo IACCARINO: „The Centre of a Circle“: Manila’s Trade with East and Southeast Asia at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century [pp. 99–120] Omri BASSEWITCH FRENKEL: Conquistadores or Merchants? Spanish Plans for the Conquest of China, 1565–1586 [pp. 121–140] CHENG Weichung 鄭維中: The Dutch Deserter Hugo Rozijn and His Activities in East Asian Waters during the Ming-Qing Transition [pp. 141–160] LEE Chi-lin 李其霖 The Development of Shipbuilding during the Qing Dynasty [pp. 161–193] Wim DE WINTER: Dining with the Daimyō: Performative Intercultural Exchange and Border Thinking through Seventeenth-Century European-Japanese Banquets [pp. 195–218] Fabricio A. FONSECA: The Chinese Initiative for a Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America [pp. 219–247] Abstracts (in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean) [pp. 245–256]

The present volume is a collection of papers originally presented for the concluding conference of the research project The East Asian ‘Mediterranean’ entitled “The East Asian ‘Mediterranean’ - Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration” and held at Munich University from November 2–3, 2007. The papers in this volume have been arranged according to thematical sections, that is “Mediterranean Seas - from East Asia to East Africa”, “Merchants and merchant networks”, “Commodities and transport”, and finally “Trade parameters and perceptions” - each section covering a different aspect of trade, diplomacy and perceptions across and within the East Asian and Asian waters. In order to show the variety and the different qualities of interaction and exchange relations we have selected case studies with a main focus lying on Sino-Japanese, Sino-Ryukyuan, and Japanese-Korean relations as well as the involvement of Muslim merchants in the Asian waters. The volume in particular tries to draw the readers’ attention to the necessity and the advantages of international cooperation and interaction investigating topics of Asian history.

The present volume is a collection of studies discussing trade and exchange relations across the East China Sea in the time period between c. 1400 and 1840. It introduces and analyses characteristics of trade and exchange, of economic and personal networks including knowledge transfer between East Asian countries, the importance of which has for a long time been underestimated or misinterpreted. The authors want to show that from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century East Asia was far from being a group of more or less isolated states, but was characterised by multifarious contacts and connections. The countries or regions investigated include China, Japan, Korea, the Ryu-kyu- Islands and Tsushima. The contributions are subdivided according to topical themes and focus on sea and land routes, archaeology, trade and commodity exchange, knowledge transfer and exchange in the field of medicine (including physicians), and European images of parts of East Asia. Examining a great deal of sources ranging from diaries, letters, tomb inscriptions to commodity lists and government documents, this volume sheds more light into hitherto neglected aspects of maritime trade.

Das Buch untersucht an ausgewählten Beispielen die Praxis und Ideologie der Grabkultur und damit verbundene Jenseitsvorstellungen im vormodernen China. Die Schwerpunkte liegen auf der archäologisch und schriftlich basierten Analyse von Grabinschriften (1.-5. und 10. Jh. n. Chr.) und historischen Aufzeichnungen im Grab (Qin-Bambusannalen, 4.-3. Jh. v. Chr.). Außerdem werden Menschenopfer beim Tod hochgestellter Persönlichkeiten untersucht, im Diesseits kursierende Geistergeschichten sowie Gräber in ontologisch-interkultureller Perspektive vorgestellt. Zentrale Fragestellungen bestehen darin zu klären, weshalb bestimmte schriftliche Aufzeichnungen wie Grabinschriften oder Annalen sowie auch andere Gegenstände und sogar Personen den Verstorbenen mit ins Grab gegeben wurden, welchen historischen und historiographischen Wert diese besitzen, und wie und weshalb sich die Praxis und Ideologie der Grabkultur im Laufe der vormodernen Geschichte Chinas veränderten.