Includes bibliographical references and index.

Neither here nor there : trade, piracy, and the "space between" in early modern East Asia / Michael Laver -- Envoys and escorts : representation and performance among Koxinga's Japanese pirate ancestors / Peter D. Shapinsky -- Friend or foe? : intercultural diplomacy between Momoyama Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s / Birgit Tremml-Werner -- Maps, calendars, and diagrams : space and time in seventeenth-century maritime East Asia / Robert Batchelor -- Yiguan's origins : clues from Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin sources / John E. Wills Jr. -- Between bureaucrats and bandits : the rise of Zheng Zhilong and his organization, the Zheng Ministry (Zheng Bu) / Cheng-heng Lu -- The Zheng regime and the Tokugawa bakufu : asking for Japanese intervention / Patrizia Carioti -- Determining the law of the sea : the long history of the Breukelen Case, 1657-1662 / Adam Clulow -- Dreams in the Chinese periphery : Victorio Riccio and Zheng Chenggong's regime / Anna Busquets -- Shame and scandal in the family : Dutch eavesdropping on the Zheng lineage / Leonard Bluss -- Bridging the bipolar : Zheng Jing's decade on Taiwan, 1663-1673 / Xing Hang -- The burning shore : Fujian and the coastal depopulation, 1661-1683 / Dahpon David Ho -- Admiral Shi Lang's secret proposal to return Taiwan to the VOC / Weichung Cheng -- Trade, piracy, and resistance in the Gulf of Tonkin in the seventeenth century / Robert J. Antony -- Koxinga and his maritime regime in the popular historical writings of post-Cold War Taiwan / Peter Kang -- Japan in the Chinese tribute system / Mark Ravina.

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