...Edward L. Dreyer Japanese Piracy in Ming China during the 16th Century . By Kwan-Wai So . East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 1975 . x, 254 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS 129 various...

...Dian Murray Lineage Society on the Southeastern Coast of China: The Impact of Japanese Piracy in the 16th Century . By Ivy Maria Lim . Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press , 2010 . xxx, 390 pp. $129.99 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 If this were...

... significant, while in other areas, such as trademarks, it is far from perfect. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China . By Martin K. Dimitrov . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2009...

... The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China . By Andrew Mertha . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2005 . xvii , 241 pp. $32.50 (cloth). ...

... history may have been more of a deviation than is apparent. The suppression of “piracy” in the area and the political domination of the Brookes over most of the northeastern part of the island had several important results. First, the area trade patterns—if piracy can be seen as a form of luxury trade...

... treated as a frivolous topic, in recent years, there has been a marked upsurge in the number of historical studies on maritime piracy. Most new studies have focused on the historical antecedents of the hot spots of today's piracy around the globe. Stefan Eklöf Amirell's new book, Pirates of Empire...

... created challenges to central authority that prevail to this day. Piracy was an endemic part of the maritime formula, a product of the relationship among burgeoning maritime economy, growing sea commerce, state policies, and the distinct culture of Chinese seafaring society. In this new study, Robert...

... by the British navy in the suppression of piracy along the China coast. Both of these subjects, however, are studied primarily with the object of illustrating to what extent the Admiralty influenced British foreign policy toward China from 1832 to 1869. The work represents a great deal of diligent research...

... day s sail from the nearest imperial patrol. That commerce grew markedly in the Ming and Qing eras, and the political economy that resulted created challenges to central authority that prevail to this day. Piracy was an endemic part of the maritime formula, a product of the relationship among...

... reports of Dutch and English punitive expeditions, and Sir Stamford Raffles's and James Brooke's influential reports on "Malay piracy." Ann Reber has shown that Raffles's writings were largely responsible for the genesis of a "decay theory" of Malay piracy: Raffles forcefully argued that the monopolistic...

... piracy in the archipelago. Piracy "arose mainly out of the disorganization of the native commerce" brought on by the Portuguese filibustering methods and the Dutch trading monopoly (p. 453). To a large extent, we are told, the English, mainly through the efforts of Raja James Brooke, were responsible...

... of tributary relations in 1549, without considering the extraordinary flareup of Japanese piracy which occurred during and after the last years of the tributary period, and especially between 1552 and 1559. Since one of the main objects of the Chinese court in encouraging the Japanese to send tributary...

... of printing blocks (the ban in banquan ), rather than based on an intangible concept of “intellectual property.” Chapters 2 and 3 demonstrate that late Qing publishers, as well as influential writers and translators such as Yan Fu, increasingly struggled to protect their livelihoods against piracy...

... the Chinese unless specifically requested to do so by Chi- nese officials, who themselves were unable to cope with the pirates. As a result piracy steadily increased during the period of the Arrow war and the T'ai-p'ing rebellion and was greatly aided by the ease with which Hongkong could be used as a base...

.... This interesting study deals with British naval policy in the China seas and the part taken by the British navy in the suppression of piracy along the China coast. Both of these subjects, however, are studied primarily with the object of illustrating to what extent the Admiralty influenced British foreign policy...

... monograph has important implications for assessing Ch'ing military readiness in a period commonly identified with the beginning of dynastic decline. The Kwangtung coast had always supported piracy, but before the 1790s pirate gangs tended to be small ad hoc units whose participants were fishermen or sailors...

.... But when the anti-piracy commission of 1836 found that the Bendahara of Pahang, another officer of the old Johore empire, bought some of the pirates' captives for work in his mines, Ibrahim offered his mediation, which was accepted. These proceedings have several interesting features. First they somewhat...

... project to “lay down the roots of an unalienated and democratic culture of cinema in Siam” (p. 169). In addition, several of the authors tackle the notion that digital media and piracy as mass media interventions have appeared to enable a form of modernity in the public sphere, in granting access...

... on raiding ships whenever trading, shing, or farming could not sustain them. In fact, I do not think Antony and Murray are in disagreement. Murray herself argues that the piracy crisis was rooted ecologically in the water world formed by the northeastern South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin (1987, 6 17...

... uses these texts “to dissect the construction of the late Ming empire's self-image in the discourse of Japanese piracy and Yuan/Ming/Java foreign relations” (p. 83). It is the fictional work, according to Wang, that is best able to depict the Ming in the face of its others. The second section...