Asian piracy / Asian seaports in the 1850's

May 30, 2006 21:48

I'm back, and on a different project. This place is addicting. This is somewhat obscure information I need, but anything helps ( Read more... )

~boats and other things that float, vietnam: history, ~pirates, indonesia: history, 1850-1859, malaysia: history, ~languages: (misc): slang slurs & curses

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randomstasis June 1 2006, 01:40:11 UTC
googling "vietnam pirate seaport" came up with a lot of info, http://www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/seascapes/wheeler.html , has a lot of economic arguments to skim, but has a great bibliography, says;
A Vietnamese official, touring these coastal ports in the mid-eighteenth century, remarked, "there isn't anything you can't buy", and has several pages of really great description of the ports, searoutes, etc and accounts of ports and pirates in the heyday of these ports, which seem to have been going downhill by your period,so you're probably better off to look at sources a bit earlier, Then follow them up to your period..
there are also these names from http://www.charm.ru/coins/vn/nagasaki.shtml ;has a great bibliography, it says"overseas trade in the Great Viet ... Pho Hien, HoiAn ports and Cachao came into existence. Both the Inner Region and the Outer region of the Great Viet..
Lord Nguyen Hoang founded Hoi An port at the beginning of the 17th century, hundreds of Japanese residents were already there. .....Viets river-ports. In Hoi An, to handle the large influx of Japanese, the local authority set up a Japanese town quarter, Nihomachi. And the Chinese merchants had a nearby town quarter as well. They exchanged goods with each other or with the locals in open market fair. The Japanese preferred Chinese or Vietnamese raw silk, sugar, spices, sandalwood...Port of Cochin-china .. Lord Nguyen Hoang's sixth son led a squadron of more than ten ships to Cua Viet seaport where he destroyed two of the pirates' ships of Kenki, a Japanese pirate mistaken for a Westerner. Later in 1599, Kenki's ship had been wrecked in the ThuanAn seaport

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