Thursday 27 October
Opening Remarks (3:30):Tonio Andrade Emory University, USA
Session 1: The Context (4:00 – 6:00)
Chinese Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth Century: Interpreting
the Bodleian Selden Map (Robert Batchelor Georgia Southern University, USA)
Beyond the Coast and into the Hills: The Impact on Zhangzhou of Maritime Trade and Migration, 16th-18th Centuries (Lucille Chia University of California Riverside, USA)
Buccaneers, Boats & Barbarian Cannon: Naval Technology and State Power in the Late Ming )Kenneth Swope Ball State University, USA)
Comment: Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas Leiden University, Netherlands
Friday 28 October
Session 2 (9:00–11:30): The Zheng and Taiwan
Koxinga and his maritime regime in the historical writings of the post-martial-law Taiwan (Peter Kang National Dong-hwa University, Taiwan)
Admiral Shih Lang's Secret Proposal for Returning Taiwan to the VOC (Cheng Weichung University of Leiden, Netherlands)
Between Trade and Hairdos: The Zheng Decade on Taiwan, 1664-1674 (Xing Hang Brandeis University, USA)
郑成功与台湾 [Zheng Chenggong and Taiwan] (Zheng Wanqing Professor Emeritus of Zhejiang University, China)
Comment: Lu Hanchao Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Session 3 (1:00-‐3:00): Global Perspectives
The Chinese Mediterranean: The China Seas in World History (Angela Schottenhammer University of Ghent, Belgium)
Sino-Japanese-Spanish Patterns of Communication and Early Modern Geopolitical Change in the South China Sea (Birgit M. Tremml University of Vienna, Austria)
The Space Between: Japan and the Cosmopolitan East Asian Commercial World (Michael Laver Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Comment: Ghulam A. Nadri London School of Economics, UK, and Georgia State University, USA
Session 4 (3:30–5:30): Japan and Maritime China
The Zheng Maritime Organisation and Early Tokugawa Japan: A Privileged Dialogue (Patrizia Carioti University of Naples, Italy)
Determining the Law of the Sea: Zheng Chenggong, the Dutch East India Company and Tokugawa legal authorities (Adam Clulow Monash University, Australia)
The competition between the Zheng and the VOC in the Sino-Japan trade (1640-1683) (Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas Leiden University, Netherlands)
Comment: Mark Ravina Emory University, USA
Saturday 29 October
Session 6 (9:00–10:30): Trade and Political Economy
海禁”政策与郑氏海商 [The Maritime Prohibitions and the Zheng Merchant Empire] (Gu Yuhui (顾宇辉), Researcher, China Maritime Museum, Shanghai)
郑经与台湾海上贸易 [Zheng Jing and Maritime Trade] (Zhou Qunhua (周群华), Director of Research, China Maritime Museum, Shanghai)
The Burning Shore: Fujian and the Coastal Depopulation, 1661-1683
(Dahpon D. Ho University of Rochester, USA)
Comment: Xing Hang Brandeis University, USA
Session 7 (11:00-‐12:30): The Iberians
Dreams in Chinese Periphery: Victorio Ricci and Koxinga’s Ambitions for the Philippines (Anna Busquets Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Zheng Zhilong and the Jesuit Francesco Sambiasi: Allies during the Ming Empire’s Twilight (Frederik Vermote University of British Columbia, Canada)
Embassy (Ashleigh Dean, Emory University, USA)
Comment: John E. Wills, Jr. University of Southern California (emeritus), USA
Session 8 (1:30–3:30): Pirates!
Yiguan's Origins: Clues from Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese Sources (John E. Wills, Jr. University of Southern California (emeritus), USA)
官與賊之間:明末最後海賊王劉香與鄭芝龍集團 [Between Bureaucrats and Bandits: The Last Pirate-King of the Late Ming, Liu Xiang, and the Zheng Zhilong Organization] (Lu Cheng-Heng Qinghua University, Taiwan)
Performing “Japanese Pirates” in Sixteenth-Century East Asia (Peter D. Shapinsky University of Illinois, Springfield, USA)
Trade, Piracy, and Resistance in the Sino-Vietnamese Region in the 17th Century (Robert J. Antony University of Macau, China)
Comment: Tonio Andrade Emory University, USA
Concluding Plenary Discussion: Maritime China in World History (4:00–5:00)
Emcee: Tonio Andrade
Participants: Leonard Blussé, Jack Wills, Patrizia Carioti, Lucille Chia, Peter Kang