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Taiwan Maritime Landscape from Neolithic to Early Modern Times

Author :  Paola Calanca, Liu Yi-Chang & Frank Muyard

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Country
France
Publisher
Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, Paris, France
ISBN ISSN: 1269-8067 ; 9782855392721
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info 392p. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Categories Archaeology
Product Weight 1192 gms.
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Taiwan Maritime Landscapes examines the maritime history and prehistory of Taiwan, with particular attention paid to the often neglected pre-17th century periods. It expands our understanding of the island’s past and its nautical environment, and highlights the persistence of Taiwan’s relationships with its neighbors, first through the maritime activities of Austronesian peoples, then around the 2nd millennium AD by way of the Minnan sailors. Supported by a multidisciplinary approach, the works presented herein showcase recent advances in archaeological and historical research on these issues. It documents the natural maritime and climatic environment of Taiwan, its first Neolithic communities, their diversification up to the 1st millennium AD, and the integration of the island into Chinese and European maritime networks. It illustrates and explores the island societies’ cultural and commercial connections with populations and polities across the South and East China Seas as well as the nautical knowledge underpinning these relations. The articles presented in this book offer new insights and avenues for Asian maritime history research. *** Taiwan Maritime Landscapes revient sur l’histoire et la prehistoire maritimes de Taiwan, en se focalisant sur les periodes anterieures au XVIIe siecle, souvent ignorees par les chercheurs. L’ouvrage ouvre de nouvelles perspectives sur le passe de l’ile et son environnement nautique en mettant, notamment, en evidence la permanence des relations de Taiwan avec ses voisins, a travers, d’abord, les activites des peuples austronesiens puis celles des marins Minnan depuis les alentours du IIe millenaire. Pluridisciplinaires, les contributions presentent les avancees recentes de la recherche archeologique et historique sur ces questions : elles examinent l’environnement naturel – maritime et climatique – de Taiwan, les premieres communautes neolithiques de l’ile, leur diversification jusqu’au Ier millenaire de notre ere puis l’integration de l’ile dans les reseaux maritimes chinois et europeens. Les auteurs analysent en particulier les liens, culturels et commerciaux, entretenus par les societes insulaires avec les populations et les entites politiques des mers de Chine du Sud et de l’Est et les connaissances nautiques necessaires a l’etablissement et a la poursuite de telles relations.

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