The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
Taiwan Maritime Landscapes
from Neolithic to Early Modern Times
Collection : Études thématiques
Collection's number: 34
Editor: Calanca (Paola), Muyard (Frank) , Liu (Yi-chang)
Edition: EFEO
Publication date: 2022
Status : Available
40,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855392721
ISSN : 1269-8067
Width : 18.5 cm
Height : 27.5 cm
Weight : 1.18 kg
Number of pages : 392
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion
Geography : China, South East Asia
Language : English
Place : Paris
Support : Papier
Description :
18.5 x 27.5 cm, 392 p., Ill., English, paperback
Abstract
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.
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About the editor
Calanca (Paola)
Paola Calanca, after having carried out studies in History and Chinese studies, is currently Associate Professor at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and teaches research seminars at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). Her research mainly focuses on maritime history, with special interests in Ming-Qing coastal defense, the interaction between civil and military population in coastal areas, and navigation knowledge (shipbuilding and nautical practices). She has coordinated a five-year research program (ANR-MOST, 2014–2019) on Maritime knowledge for China Seas in the 16th–18th century with Chen Kuo-tung (IHP, Academia Sinica).
Muyard (Frank)
Frank Muyard is currently Head of École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Taipei Center and Associate Professor, National Central University, Taiwan. His main research interests are Taiwan and China’s modern history and sociology, as well as Austronesian prehistory and South China protohistory. He is currently researching the history of Taiwanese archaeology and its interactions with state nationalism and indigenous peoples. Recent publications include “The Role of Democracy in the Rise of the Taiwanese National Identity,” in A New Era in Democratic Taiwan (J. Sullivan & C. Lee eds., 2018), “Taiwan Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples,” in Archaeology, History and Indigenous Peoples (L. Hung ed., 2016), and “Comparativism and Taiwan Studies: Analyzing Taiwan in/out of Context, or Taiwan as an East Asian New World Society,” in Comparatizing Taiwan (S. Shih & P. Liao eds., 2015).
Liu (Yi-chang)
Liu Yi-chang is currently Professor and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at National Cheng Kung University and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, from which he retired in 2019 as Research Fellow. His main research interest is Taiwan and the South China Sea periphery, focusing mainly on Taiwan prehistory, indigenous archaeology, historical archaeology, archaeology of Southeast Asia, cultural heritage studies, and the history of Taiwan archaeology. His research objective is to comprehensively understand the history of human development in Taiwan in linking the Austronesian-dominant prehistory with the Han culture-dominant history since the 17th century by means of integrating archaeology, ethnology, early historical archives, and the oral history of the indigenous peoples.
