Silk for silver : Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700 / by Hoang Anh Tuan
- Bib ID:
- 4298587
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hoàng, Anh Tuấn
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- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
- xxix, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004156012
- 9004156011
- Series:
- TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction ; v. 5.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION
- The subject 1
- Tonkin in the intra-Asian trade of the VOC 3
- Source materials and analytical framework 5
- PART ONE: THE SETTING
- Introduction 9
- Chapter One: Political background 11
- 1. Vietnamese maritime trade prior to 1527 11
- The Hundred Viets and the Vietnamese 11
- The Chinese colonization of northern Vietnam,
- 179 BC-AD 905 12
- Independent Dai Viet and the state monopoly of foreign
- trade, 1010-1527 16
- 2. Incessant conflicts and political schisms, 1527-1672 19
- Chapter Two: Economic background 26
- 1. Handicraft industries and export commodities 26
- Raw silk and piece-goods 27
- Ceramics 30
- Other miscellaneous exports 31
- 2. New trends in foreign trade 33
- A more open trend in foreign trade, the 1500s 33
- The birth of the seventeenth-century commercial
- system 36
- Complicated trading conditions 39
- 3. Foreign merchants 44
- The Chinese 44
- The Japanese 48
- The Portuguese 50
- The Dutch 52
- The English 52
- Other foreign merchants 55
- Concluding remarks 57
- PART TWO: THE POLITICAL RELATIONS
- Introduction 59
- Chapter Three: Intimate phases 61
- 1. The abortive Dutch trade with Quinam, 1601-1638 61
- 2. The Dutch arrival in Tonkin, 1637 66
- 3. Ideological struggles and belligerent decisions,
- 1637-1643 70
- Military or peaceful involvement, 1637-1641? 70
- Tension escalating in Quinam, 1642 74
- The Dutch military defeats, 1642-1643 77
- 4. The Quinam interlude and frigid relations with
- Tonkin, 1644-1651 83
- The VOC's unilateral war with Quinam, 1644-1651 83
- The peace agreement with Quinam, 1651 86
- Frigid relations with the Trinh, 1644-1647 88
- The relationship deteriorated, 1647-1651 91
- Chapter Four: Vicissitudes, decline and the final end 96
- 1. Revival of the relationship, 1651-1660 96
- Verstegen's commission to Tonkin, 1651 96
- A short-lived permanent factory, 1651 98
- The first phase of decline, the 1650s 99
- 2. Attempts to expand the Tonkin trade, 1660-1670 103
- The decline in the Tonkin-China border trade and the
- loss of Formosa 104
- The VOC's 'Tinnam strategy', 1661-1664 106
- Tonkin as a permanent factory, 1663 110
- Continued decline, the 1660s 111
- 3. Towards the final end, 1670-1700 115
- The eventful 1670s 115
- Decline intensified, 1680-1690 118
- The last ship, 1699/1700 121
- Concluding remarks 123
- PART THREE: THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
- Introduction 125
- Chapter Five: The import trade 127
- 1. Silver 127
- 2. Japanese copper zeni 133
- The Vietnamese monetary system prior to the
- seventeenth century 133
- The cash shortage in the 1650s and the VOC's import
- of Japanese copper zeni into Tonkin 134
- 3. The arms trade and the import of other miscellaneous
- items 139
- Chapter Six: The export trade (i): Tonkinese silk for Japan 143
- 1. The Far Eastern silk trade prior to the early 1630s 143
- 2. The period of experiment, 1637-1640 146
- 3. The period of high profit, 1641-1654 148
- Silk trade under military alliances, 1641-1643 149
- Decline of Formosa and rise of Tonkin, 1644-1654 150
- 4. The period of decline, 1655-1671 156
- 5. On the capital and profit 160
- Chapter Seven: The export trade (ii): Other products 165
- 1. Tonkinese products for the Netherlands 165
- Silk piece-goods 165
- Musk 168
- 2. Gold for the Coromandel Coast 171
- 3. Tonkinese ceramics for the insular South-East Asian
- markets 176
- Concluding remarks 184
- PART FOUR: DUTCH-VIETNAMESE INTERACTIONS
- Introduction 187
- Chapter Eight: The Dutch East India Company trade and
- its impact on seventeenth-century Vietnamese society 189
- 1. Dutch residents and local society 189
- Factories and factors 189
- The directorship: the need for 'Vietnamese learning'
- and diplomatic activities 191
- Religious practices and anti-Christian sentiments in
- Tonkin 194
- Paid company and sentimental attachment: foreign
- merchants and Vietnamese women 196
- 2. The impact of the VOC trade on Tonkin's economy 198
- The VOC's import of monetary metals and its impact
- on the silver/cash ratio 198
- Impact on prices 202
- Impact on labour 204
- The commercial centres and the commercial system 206
- Were the first seeds of capitalism sown? 208
- 3. The Dutch catalyst in the Tonkin-Quinam conflict 210
- 4. Miscellaneous issues 212
- Concluding remarks 214
- CONCLUSION
- Conflicting interests and the political vicissitudes 216
- The intra-Asian trade and varying commercial trends 218
- Trade as a bridge for Dutch-Vietnamese interactions 219
- APPENDICES
- 1. Vua (Emperors) LU and Chfia (Kings) Trinh in
- seventeenth-century Tonkin 223
- 2. Governors-General and Chief Factors of the Dutch factory
- in Tonkin in the seventeenth century 224
- 3. Dutch shipping in Tonkin, 1637-1699 225
- 4. Foreign shipping in Tonkin, 1637-1699 228
- 5. Intended division of the Tonkin cargo for Japan, 1645 230
- 6. Tonkinese silk exported to Japan by the VOC, 1635-1697 231
- 7. Silk prices as recorded by the Deshima factory,
- 1636-1668 233
- 8. Tonkinese ceramics exported to Batavia and other places,
- 1663-1681 234
- 9. Re-shipments of Tonkinese ceramics, 1670-1681 235
- 10. Ceramics imported into Tonkin, 1637-1681 236
- 11. Porcelain the VOC ordered in Japan for the Trinh rulers,
- 1666-1681 238
- Notes 239
- Bibliography 275
- Index 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index.
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