Historical archaeology of early modern colonialism in Asia-Pacific. [Volume II], The Asia-Pacific region

The history of Asia-Pacific since the sixteenth century has traditionally been told with Europe as the main player ushering in a globalized, capitalist world, but the contributors to this volume and its companion volume suggest that Europeans merely appropriated existing systems in the area for their own benefit. The essays help decentralize that global history and assemble a picture of the region before and after European involvement in order to develop a more holistic understanding of colonial processes. This volume of Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific looks at colonialism in the Philippines, China, Japan, and Vietnam, emphasizing the robust trans-regional networks that extended from Venice in the Mediterranean to Guangzhou in southern China before European contact. Southeast Asia had long been influenced by Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim traders in ways that not only helped build the region’s ethnic and political divisions but continue to shape them in the present day. Essays show the complexity and significance of maritime trade during European colonization by investigating galleon wrecks in Manila full of goods from around the globe, Japan’s far-reaching porcelain exports, and the hundreds of Spanish coins discovered off China’s coast. Packed with archaeological and historical evidence from both land and underwater sites, impressive in geographical scope, and featuring perspectives of scholars from many different countries and traditions, this volume and its companion illuminate the often misunderstood nature of early colonialism in Asia-Pacific. Contributors: Marcelin Abong | Dr. James Bayman | Dr Stuart Bedford | Dr. Alexandre Coello | Cacilie Craft | María Cruz Berrocal | Dr. Boyd Dixon | James L. Flexner | Dr. Ann Heylen | Ellen Hsieh | Andrea Jalandoni | Dr. Jun Kimura | Dr. Liu Yi-chang | Dr. Miao Liu | Dr. Miguel Luque-Talaván | Takenori Nogami | Bobby C. Orillaneda | Dr. John Peterson | Dr. Frank Quimby |Dr. Christophe Sand | Richard Shing | Dr. Russell K. Skowronek | Dr. Matthew Spriggs | Dr. Mark Staniforth | Dr. Cheng-hwa Tsang | Dr Frederique Valentin | Dr. Su-Chin Wong | Dr. Chunming Wu 'The essential source for scholarly reassessment of the Asia-Pacific region's diverse and significant archaeology and history.'--James P. Delgado, coauthor of The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panama'Underpins a nuanced picture of Asia-Pacific that shows how the activities of the Chinese and Japanese in East Asia, the spread of Islam from South Asia, and the efforts of the Iberians and especially the Spanish from southern Europe ushered in a world of complex interaction and rapid and often profound change in local, regional, and wider cultural patterns.'--Ian Lilley, editor of Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands The history of Asia-Pacific since 1500 has traditionally been told with Europe as the main player ushering in a globalized, capitalist world. But these volumes help decentralize that global history, revealing that preexisting trade networks and local authorities influenced the region before and long after Europeans arrived. In the volume The Southwest Pacific and Oceanian Regions, case studies from Alofi, Vanuatu, the Marianas, Hawaii, Guam, and Taiwan compare the development of colonialism across different islands. Contributors discuss human settlement before the arrival of Dutch, French, British, and Spanish explorers, tracing major exchange routes that were active as early as the tenth century. They highlight rarely examined sixteenth- and seventeenth-century encounters between indigenous populations and Europeans and draw attention to how cross-cultural interaction impacted the local peoples of Oceania. The volume The Asia-Pacific Region looks at colonialism in the Philippines, China, Japan, and Vietnam, emphasizing the robust trans-regional networks that existed before European contact. Southeast Asia had long been influenced by Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim traders in ways that helped build the region's ethnic and political divisions. Essays show the complexity and significance of maritime trade during European colonization by investigating galleon wrecks in Manila, Japan's porcelain exports, and Spanish coins discovered off China's coast. Packed with archaeological and historical evidence from both land and underwater sites, impressive in geographical scope, and featuring perspectives of scholars from many different countries and traditions, these volumes illuminate the often misunderstood nature of early colonialism in Asia-Pacific. Cover Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes for Readers Maps Introduction: Understanding Early Modern Colonialism in Asia and the Pacific 1. Contesting Modes of Colonialism: The Southern Philippines in the Global Net of Asian, Islamic, and European Exchange and Colonialism in the Second Millennium CE 2. Maritime Trade in the Philippines during the Early Colonial Period (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries CE) 3. The Impact of the First Conquest on the Indigenous Populations of the Philippines (Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries) 4. European Ceramics in the Spanish Philippines: Insights from the University of Michigan Philippine Expedition of 1922–1925 5. The Power of Images in the Boxer Codex and Cultural Convergence in Early Spanish Manila 6. The Discovery of Spanish Colonial Coins from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries in the Southeast Coast of China 7. A Geographic Analysis of Traders and Trade Goods in Japan’s Late Medieval Seto Inland Sea 8. The Trade Networks of Japanese Porcelain in the Asia-Pacific Region 9. Colonialism in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the Late Pre-European Period List of Contributors Index For decades, global colonialism and capitalist expansion has been viewed and interpreted as a purely Eurocentric phenomenon beginning in the sixteenth century with the age of exploration. Recent research has pulled the focus from Europe toward China as the first agent of global expansion. This collection will continue to challenge the northern European narrative to include the Chinese, Iberian, and Japanese connections to global transformations and economies. The Asia-Pacific area developed tighter and more cohesive regional trade networks and had a greater impact on local populations in areas such as consumption patterns and artistic creation This book puts together archaeological and historical visions from scholars from Europe, Asia and America, to contribute new data and perspectives to the fairly little known topic of the early colonial endeavors in Asia-Pacific and the Pacific