The Pre-Modern East Asian Maritime Realm:  An Overview of European-Language Studies

 

Geoff Wade

 

Written in order to introduce Japanese scholars to European-language scholarship on maritime East Asia (comprising Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia), this article presents an overview of such works written mainly over the last 50 years. It is more an annotated bibliography than a review article and includes reference to studies of East Asian nautical technologies, maritime routes, maritime trade, port polities, tribute systems, religious interflow, shipwrecks, trade commodities and classical Asian texts relating to the maritime realm, through citation of over 600 works.

 

Keywords:

East Asia, maritime trade, port polities, shipwrecks

 

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