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Book Review
Book Reviews: Asia. Piracy and surreptitious activities in the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas, 1600-1840
2016
Overview
Sandy Liu's chapter on the Chinese begins with some general premises which could have been better refined (the stereotype of the Chinese as 'industrious', for instance), but then goes on to provide a good survey of Chinese involvement in regional violence -- which encompassed dealing in weapons as well as the relatively well-documented secret societies. [...]the idea of raiding or trading in particular goods that had spiritual properties is raised at least twice (for instance, p. 101) but never fully developed, and an anthropological approach to how maritime raiding is remembered in local rituals is tantalisingly short (pp. 88-9). The chapter by Teddy Sim on the fluid identity of the Portuguese and their engagement in both legal and illicit maritime trading makes the compelling argument that this shifting legality was part and parcel of not only a region in flux, but symptomatic of individuals who were operating in the wake of a waning Estado da Ãndia.
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Cambridge University Press
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