| 日期： | 2019年3月21日 (星期四) |
| 時間： | 下午7時至8時半 |
| 地點： | 香港銅鑼灣高士威道66號香港中央圖書館地下演講廳 |
| 語言： | 英語 |
| 主持： |
香港中文大學歷史系偉倫歷史研究教授 |
| 摘要： | From the 16th to the 18th century, the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea formed an immense maritime region that prospered outside the limits of imperial jurisdiction, and where several port cities (Nagasaki, Canton, Macao, Sakai, and later, Manila and Batavia) were to assert themselves as the real centres of accumulation of wealth and knowledge. The influence of this maritime space expanded or contracted according to the power or weakness of the merchant networks that crisscrossed it. The conditions under which ultra-marine trade was undertaken – tributary trade, and long periods of prohibition of maritime activities – led to a situation in which merchants, smugglers and pirates cohabited for a long time. Did these trade relations formed a ‘Mediterranean’ pattern of exchanges between Manila, Batavia, Nagasaki, Taiwan and Macao, Hoi An and Malacca? During the Ming and Qing periods, maritime trade was a very lucrative though high-risk and capital-intensive business. Maritime trade in the 16th-18th century period was characterized by merchants’ ability to transform products imported from faraway lands into exotic items for the domestic market. This evolution in the composition of foreign trade suggest a break with the Song model, for which foreign trade was almost exclusively concerned with luxury goods. |
主辦機構
香港中文大學歷史系
香港中文大學歷史系比較及公眾歷史研究中心
香港中文大學歷史系比較及公眾史學文學碩士課程
康樂及文化事務署香港公共圖書館
贊助
中大卓犖歷史發展基金
