RCCHC「歷史上的中國與世界」講座系列 - Taiwan-Registered Junks and the Changing Geographies of Maritime Trade and Public Finance in Late Qing Fujian

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報名

日期

2025年11月24日
主辦單位

中國歷史與文化研究中心、中國歷史及文化學系
時間

11:00 - 12:30
地點

理大學生宿舍 (紅磡) SHA106

講者

Prof. James Gerien-Chen

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羅嘉敏小姐 34008979 rcchc@polyu.edu.hk

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此講座將會以英語進行

摘要

(只提供英語版本) After Japan’s colonization of Taiwan in 1895, officials hoped to regulate the junk-borne trade between the island and the Fujian coast. Junks newly registered in Taiwan, however, led to the proliferation of jurisdictional questions between customs officials, foreign consuls, and Qing tax collectors over a variety of maritime spaces that ultimately revealed contradictions internal to the treaties between the Qing and foreign imperial powers. Was jurisdiction a matter of a ship's type (steam vs. sail), its registration, or the owner or origin of its cargo? Drawing on multi-sited archival research, this talk examines how such junks ultimately shaped broader debates about Sino-foreign trade in and beyond the treaty ports, local versus central power in the Qing empire, and strategies of Japanese imperial expansion in the context of capitalist competition.

講者

Prof. James Gerien-Chen

Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida

(只提供英語版本) James Gerien-Chen is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida and received his PhD in History from Columbia University in 2019. This talk is part of his first monograph-in-progress, titled Between Empire and Nation: "Registered Taiwanese" in South China, 1895–1950, which situates the transimperial registered Taiwanese at the margins of Japan's imperial expansion, China's transition from empire to nation-state, and Chinese migration. Using multi-lingual archives, it reconstructs how local disputes raised broader debates between Japanese, Qing/Chinese, and British officials that concerned state power and commercial competition: in addition to this talk on maritime trade, it examines the themes of defining subjecthood/citizenship, channeling investment in industrial enterprise, investing in urban development, and interdicting smuggling.

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