Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Ming government
- 2 The Ming fiscal administration
- 3 Ming law
- 4 The Ming and Inner Asia
- 5 Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming
- 6 Ming foreign relations: Southeast Asia
- 7 Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514–1662
- 8 Ming China and the emerging world economy, c. 1470–1650
- 9 The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming
- 10 Communications and commerce
- 11 Confucian learning in late Ming thought
- 12 Learning from Heaven: the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China
- 13 Official religion in the Ming
- 14 Ming Buddhism
- 15 Taoism in Ming culture
- Bibliographic notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary-Index
- References
7 - Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514–1662
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Ming government
- 2 The Ming fiscal administration
- 3 Ming law
- 4 The Ming and Inner Asia
- 5 Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming
- 6 Ming foreign relations: Southeast Asia
- 7 Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514–1662
- 8 Ming China and the emerging world economy, c. 1470–1650
- 9 The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming
- 10 Communications and commerce
- 11 Confucian learning in late Ming thought
- 12 Learning from Heaven: the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China
- 13 Official religion in the Ming
- 14 Ming Buddhism
- 15 Taoism in Ming culture
- Bibliographic notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary-Index
- References
Summary
THE TRIBUTE SYSTEM MATRIX
Between 1514 and 1662, the people and government of China were involved in, and affected by, the first stages of the development of a “modern world system.” This involvement was implemented via the sea routes linking all the continents except Antarctica and Australia in exchanges of trade goods, food plants, diseases, people, and ideas. Ming official concepts and formalized institutions of foreign relations offered little guidance to Chinese officials and had little effect on Sino-European relations after the first encounters with the Portuguese, but actual official responses were alert, flexible, and reasonably effective. Chinese merchants, craftsmen, and sailors became extremely vigorous participants in building a new world of trade and settlement around the South China Sea. The rise of Nagasaki and other ports of Kyushu, the beginnings of Chinese settlement of Taiwan, the sudden emergence of Hai-ch'eng and then Amoy, the flourishing of Macao, Manila, Banten, Batavia, Ayudhya, Melaka, and many more centers of commercial and economic growth depended very heavily on the activities of these Chinese entrepreneurs. The silk-silver trades with Japan and Manila had substantial effects on the Ming economy. The Roman Catholic missionary presence and Chinese responses to it, while on a small scale, reached all levels of Chinese society. As we seek to understand the vigor of these private involvements, we need to draw on our growing knowledge of late Ming culture and society, and especially of maritime China as a regional variant in society, economy, and polity. The changes in empire-wide politics so well summarized in Volume 7 frequently help us to understand the changes in official approaches to maritime problems.
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