
Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China - Robert J. Antony - Bookniverse
Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China
Robert J. Antony
US $52.00
US $65.00
2024/11
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9789888876501
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ePub
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香港大學出版社
About this book
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In Outlaws of the Sea, Robert J. Antony provides a comprehensive account of the history of maritime piracy in coastal south China from the 1630s to the 1940s. He neither romanticizes nor maligns pirates, but rather analyzes them in the context of their times and the broader world in which they lived. The author demonstrates that Chinese piracy was a pervasive force shaping maritime society as it ebbed and flowed between sporadic, small-scale ventures and professional, large-scale enterprises in the modern era. This book offers important new insights into the underside of modern China’s history and the interactions between pirates, foreign traders, local communities, and the state.
About the author(s)
View moreRobert J. Antony
Before retiring in 2019, Robert J. Antony was Distinguished Professor at Guangzhou University and recently visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. His publications include Unruly People: Crime, Community, and State in Late Imperial South China (HKUP, 2016) and Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas (HKUP, 2010).
About the publisher
View more香港大學出版社成立於1956年,隸屬於亞洲最具影響力的英語學府——香港大學。出版社每年出版逾三十種新書,且中文書的比例持續增加,現已超過四分之一。憑藉香港獨特的國際地位,香港大學出版社的書籍深入探討、審視並彰顯亞洲在世界中的角色。我們在中國歷史與文化、法律、公共衛生、社會工作、電影與媒體研究、藝術,以及建築與城市規劃等領域的出版物尤為享有盛譽。
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