Tribute and Profit
Tribute and Profit

Author: Sarasin Viraphol

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1684172071

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Tribute and Profit illuminates the conduct and maintenance of maritime trade under Siam’s tributary relationship with imperial China, and scrutinizes the momentous role of the Chinese in Siam’s overseas trade and domestic economy. Based substantially on historical Chinese, Siamese, and European sources, Sarasin Viraphol’s reconstruction of the tributary trade pinpoints the creative subversions, calculated risks, and clever contrivances that kept the wheels of the Siamese economy turning for centuries. Eventually, tribute missions and the junk trade were supplanted by European-style maritime commerce, free trade, and open markets. Nevertheless, the influences of these bygone relations are still present in Thailand today.

Tribute and Profit
Tribute and Profit

Author: Sarasin Viraphol

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13:

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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The International Context of the Sino-Siamese Trade -- The Siamese Trading Structure -- Initial Period, 1652-1720: Chinese Restrictions on Trade -- The Sino-Siamese-Japanese Triangular Trade -- The Abrogation of the Second Maritime Ban and the Role of the Rice Trade -- Southeast China's Trade Organizations in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- The Sino-Siamese Tributary Trade: From Late Ayudhya to Early Bangkok Periods -- The Chinese in the Economic Life of Siam in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Height of the Sino-Siamese Junk Trade in the Second and Third Bangkok Reigns, 1809-1833 -- Chinese Immigration and its Economic Impact in the Third Reign, 1824-1850 -- Declining Fortunes of the Sino-Siamese Junk Trade -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- A Chronological List of Siamese Ships Reported as Trading to Nagasaki -- A Chronological List of Pattani Ships Reported as Trading to Nagasaki -- A Chronological List of Songkla Ships Reported as Trading to Nagasaki -- A Chronological List of Ligor Ships Reported as Trading to Nagasaki -- Dispatches of Royal Ships Trading to Kwangtung in the Second Reign -- Letters from the King's Adviser to the Ruler of Songkla Concerning the Outfitting of Junks to Trade to Amoy -- Notes -- Chinese and Siamese Dynasty and Reign Names from the Seventeenth to the Late Nineteenth Centuries -- Bibliographical Note -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

The Power of Money
The Power of Money

Author: Thomas Figueira

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 0812201906

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Was Athens an imperialistic state, deserving all the reputation for exploitation that adjective can imply, or was the Athenian alliance, even at its most unequal, still characterized by a convergence of interests? The Power of Money explores monetary and metrological policy at Athens as a way of discerning the character of Athenian hegemony in midfifth-century Greece. It begins with the Athenian Coinage Decree, which, after decades of scholarly attention, still presents unresolved questions for Greek historians about content, intent, date, and effect. Was the Decree an act of commercial imperialism or simply the codification of what was already current practice? Figueira interprets the Decree as one in a series concerned with financial matters affecting the Athenian city-state and emerging from the way the collection of tribute functioned in the alliance that we call the Athenian empire. He contends that the Decree served primarily to legislate the status quo ante.

The Tribute Horse
The Tribute Horse

Author: Brandon Som

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 9781937658182

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Brandon Som's The Tribute Horse unearths strange knowledge about the ways migration acts upon and is affected by a body's language, culture, perception and physical manifestations. Using found text, prose poem and Oulipian narrative, Som constructs a poetry deep in its theoretical rigor, ravishing in its sonic pleasure, and delicate in its formal constructions, drawing from various sources, including Chinese painting, Japanese photography, and narrative of immigrants through Angel Island, including that of his own grandfather.

Codex Sierra
Codex Sierra

Author: Kevin Terraciano

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0806168854

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One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region of the modern state of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano’s transcription and translation, the first in more than a half century, combine with his deeply informed analysis to make this the most accurate, complete, and comprehensive English-language edition of this rare manuscript. The sixty-two-page manuscript, organized in parallel columns of Nahuatl alphabetic writing and hand-painted images, documents the expenditures and income of Texupan from 1550 to 1564. With the alphabetic column as a Rosetta stone for deciphering the phonetic glyphs, a picture emerges of indigenous pueblos taking part in the burgeoning Mexican silk industry—only to be buffeted by the opening of trade with China and the devastations of the great epidemics of the late 1500s. Terraciano uses a wide range of archival sources from the period to demonstrate how the community innovated and adapted to the challenges of the time, and how they were ultimately undermined by the actions and policies of colonial officials. The first known record of an indigenous population’s integration into the transatlantic economy, and of the impact of the transpacific trade on a lucrative industry in the region, the Codex Sierra provides a unique window on the world of the Mixteca less than a generation after the conquest—a view rendered all the more precise, clear, and coherent by this new translation and commentary.

A History of Ayutthaya
A History of Ayutthaya

Author: Chris Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1108121438

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Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall. It offers a wide-ranging view of social, political, and cultural history with focus on commerce, kingship, Buddhism, and war. By drawing on a wide range of sources including chronicles, accounts by Europeans, Chinese, Persians, and Japanese, law, literature, art, landscape, and language, the book presents early Siam as a 'commercial' society, not the peasant society usually assumed. Baker and Phongpaichit attribute the fall of the city not to internal conflict or dynastic decline but failure to manage the social and political consequences of prosperity. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of Southeast Asia and the early modern world.

Networks of Faith and Profit
Networks of Faith and Profit

Author: Yiwen Li

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1009303104

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Between 838 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as the tribute system has led to an assumption that there was little contact between the two countries in this period. Yiwen Li debunks this assumption, arguing instead that a vibrant Sino-Japanese trade network flourished in this period as Buddhist monks and merchants fostered connections across maritime East Asia. Based on a close examination of sources in multiple languages, including poems and letters, transmitted images and objects, and archaeological discoveries, Li presents a vivid and dynamic picture of the East Asian maritime world. She shows how this Buddhist trade network operated outside of the framework of the tribute system and, through novel interpretations of Buddhist records, provides a new understanding of the relationship between Buddhism and commerce.

Tribute
Tribute

Author: Nora Roberts

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780399154911

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Working to restore a family farmhouse, former child actress Cilla McGowan remembers her actress grandmother's fatal overdose years earlier before meeting a handsome neighbor and discovering a cache of letters that suggests her grandmother had been pregnant at the time of her death. 800,000 first printing.

Speaking of Profit
Speaking of Profit

Author: William T. Rowe

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1684170931

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"In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the “prosperous age” of the eighteenth century was over. Bureaucratic corruption and malaise, population pressure and food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, domestic and frontier rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and, eventually, a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West seemed to present hopelessly daunting challenges.This study uses the literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contemporary perceptions of and proposed solutions to this general crisis. Though Bao only briefly and inconsequentially served in office himself, he was widely recognized as an expert on each of these matters, and his advice was regularly sought by reform-minded administrators. From examination of his thought on bureaucratic and fiscal restructuring, agricultural improvement, the grain tribute administration, the salt monopoly, monetary policy, and foreign relations, Bao emerges as a consistent advocate of the hard-nosed pursuit of material “profit,” in the interests not only of the rural populace but also of the Chinese state and nation, anticipating the arguments of “self-strengthening” reformers later in the century."