The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo clan during the eighteenth century and prospered as a free-trade emporium in maritime East Asia. Mo Jiu and his son, Mo Tianci, maintained an independent polity through ambiguous and simultaneous allegiances to the Cochinchinese regime ...
The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo clan during the eighteenth century and prospered as a free-trade emporium in maritime East Asia. Mo Jiu and his son, Mo Tianci, maintained an independent polity through ambiguous and simultaneous allegiances to the Cochinchinese regime of southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Siam, and the Dutch East India Company. A shared value system was forged among their multiethnic and multi-confessional residents via elite Chinese culture, facilitating closer business ties to Qing China. The story of this remarkable settlement sheds light on a transitional period in East Asian history, when the dominance of the Chinese state, merchants, and immigrants gave way to firmer state boundaries in mainland Southeast Asia and Western dominance on the seas.
作者简介
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Xing Hang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Xing Hang is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
目录
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Introduction
1. The port before 'the port'
2. Managing hybridity
3. Situating space through verse
4. Ambiguous associations
5. A port with many faces
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Introduction
1. The port before 'the port'
2. Managing hybridity
3. Situating space through verse
4. Ambiguous associations
5. A port with many faces
6. The business of business
7. Clash of the titans
Conclusion
Glossary.
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原文摘录
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Although they were fully capable of doing so, the Mo avoided transforming The Port into a fully fledged state like its neighbors in mainland Southeast Asia. Instead, they exercised a deliberate ambiguity in representing their status to the outside world, while utilizing political and military resources in the service of economic expansion and profits. Apparently, their true aim was to establish an integrated civic space across East Asia where goods, people, ideas, and information could freely circulate. In this manner, the Mo could, like the head of a modern multinational company, better control and manipulate governments and the flow of money and resources. (查看原文)
The northern historian Phan Huy Lê attempts to forge a more ethnically inclusive narrative about The Port. Phan Huy Lê claims that as soon as Mo Jiu paid tribute to Cochinchina, he had voluntarily“become a naturalized Vietnamese citizen”(nhập qu ́ôc t_ich Vi ̇êt Nam). He and his son were, from then on,“Vietnamese of Chinese descent”(người Vi ̇êt g ́ôc Hoa). PhanHuy Lê thus celebrated cultural diversity and the agency of non-Viet actors but subsumed them within Vietnam’s overall history and identity. (查看原文)
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略超预期。也许主要是因为中英文学界对鄚家和河仙大多语焉不详，南洋历史缺了重要一环（怎么马来西岸1800年一开埠，华人就都跑过去了）。18世纪是拓殖南洋的黄金时代。此书讲鄚家父子如何统治这个暹、柬、越交界地带的关键海港城镇将近100年，收容各种信仰、使用各种语言、跟各种势力保持友好关系。一些细节很有意思：鄚家从未称王建国，不过鄚玖给子孙的行辈用字是天子公侯伯子男；鄚天赐有一套成熟的广告和运输体系，能... 略超预期。也许主要是因为中英文学界对鄚家和河仙大多语焉不详，南洋历史缺了重要一环（怎么马来西岸1800年一开埠，华人就都跑过去了）。18世纪是拓殖南洋的黄金时代。此书讲鄚家父子如何统治这个暹、柬、越交界地带的关键海港城镇将近100年，收容各种信仰、使用各种语言、跟各种势力保持友好关系。一些细节很有意思：鄚家从未称王建国，不过鄚玖给子孙的行辈用字是天子公侯伯子男；鄚天赐有一套成熟的广告和运输体系，能源源不断把雷州老乡给搞过去；河仙似乎还渐渐形成了一个本土的汉文士绅阶层；鄚天赐给清廷的呈文直接落款「天运」；乾隆时期的情报网络的确发达，对当时中南半岛各邦征伐交聘的情报，掌握得准确且及时，而且也能看出与征缅、征藏的配合；直到1770年覆亡前夕，鄚家还在使用「皇明」的称号，也算是一支最后的大明人了吧。 (展开)