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Book SynopsisIn World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the “closed” period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade seclusion policy, this work argues, only came into place one century later when the Shogunate firmly grasped the true impact of the bullion trade upon the national economy.
Trade Review"Gunn has contributed a detailed study of Nagasaki trade during Japan’s unification and under the Tokugawa. It is an excellent contribution to global history and a required reference to understand the place of Japan in the world economy of the Modern Era." -Arturo Giráldez, School of International Studies, University of the Pacific, in Journal of Contemporary Asia, 03 Feb 2019.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables and Illustrations Glossary/Abbreviations Note on Weights and Currencies Introduction Japanese Historiography The East-Southeast Asian Bullion Trade Zone The Book 1 Kyushu in the East Asian Trade Networks Spanish Manila and the Galleon Trade The Portuguese “Discovery” of the Kyushu Trade Networks The Ryukyu Tribute Trade Gold, Silver, and Copper Mines in Japan Japanese Maritime Trade with China and Korea The Portuguese Missionary Arrival in Kyushu Conclusion 2 Merchants and Missionaries in the Foundation of Nagasaki Nagasaki’s Obscure Origins The Portuguese Merchant-Missionary Arrival in Nagasaki Nagasaki under Jesuit Rule The Manila-Japan Trade Connection Return to Imperial Rule (1588) and Persecutions Conclusion 3 Nagasaki and the Silk Trade Setting the Scene on Silk Production and Procurement Functional Aspects of the Macau-Nagasaki Silk Trade The Portuguese Merchant Presence The VOC Silk Trade with Tonkin Conclusion 4 The Dutch and English at Hirado The Dutch Establishment at Hirado (1609–41) The Dutch and the Contest for Taiwan (1604–61) The Zheng Family Dynasty The Dutch Trade at Hirado The English at Hirado (1613–23) Conclusion 5 The Shimabara Rebellion (1637–38) Revisited Background to the Rebellion The Duarte Correa Manuscript and the First Stirrings of Rebellion The Battle for Shimabara Millennial Rebels or Economic Victims? The Anti-Christian Backlash Conclusion 6 Nagasaki and the Southeast Asia Trade Drawing the Contours of the “Red Seal” Trade The Chinese Junk Trade at Nagasaki in the kai-hentai Records Status of the Junk Traffic in 1664 Scale and Scope of the Nagasaki-Vietnam Trade Conclusion 7 The Chinese of Nagasaki and their Social and Commercial Activities Origins of the Nagasaki Chinese Community under the Ming Chinese Temple Communities in Nagasaki and their Functional Role The Zheng Trade with Nagasaki during the Ming-Qing Transition The Restoration of the China Trade under the Qing The Seventeenth Century Chinese Legacy in Nagasaki Conclusion 8 Nagasaki in the Age of Kaempfer Kaempfer’s Nagasaki Dutch Trade at Deshima A Dutch West India Company Account of 1721–23 Carl Peter Thunberg’s Account of 1795 Closed Door under Foreign Pressure Conclusion 9 Parameters of the Bullion Trade Economy Network Portuguese Profits on the Silk-for-Silver Trade Putting a Value on the Dutch and Chinese Bullion Trade Portuguese and Dutch in the Global Copper Trade Reassessing the Silver Drain from Japan, the Role of Arai Hakuseki Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Reprised Conclusion Global Economy and World System Stagnant Japan, Rising Japan, or Mid-Tokugawa Crisis? A Precocious Early Modernization? Nagasaki’s Pioneer Role in Japan’s Industrialization Bibliography
