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Acknowledgments
Chronological Table of Chapters
Date Title Source
1970 Managing maritime affairs in
late Ming times
An outgrowth of a chapter
in my MA thesis written in
- The thesis chapter
was reproduced in Nanyang
University Journal, no. 5
(1971): 81–100.
1970 The changing landscape in
rural south Fujian in late-
Ming times: A story of the
“little people”(1)
An outgrowth of a chapter
in my MA thesis written in
- The thesis chapter
was reproduced in Nanyang
University Journal, no. 6
(1972): 189–213.
1970 Gentry-merchants and
peasant-peddlers in offshore
trading activities, 1522–66: A
story of the “little people”(2)
An outgrowth of a chapter
in my MA thesis written in
- The thesis chapter
was reproduced in Nanyang
University Journal, no. 7
(1973): 161–75.
1991 The case of Chen Yilao:
Maritime trade and overseas
Chinese in Qing policies,
1717–
First published in
Emporia, Commodities and
Entrepreneurs in Asian
Maritime Trade, C. 1400–
1750 , ed. Roderich Ptak
and Dietmar Rothermund.
Stuttgard: Franz Steiner
Verlag for Sudasien-Institut,
Universitat Heidelberg,
pp. 373–400.