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THE PERCEPTION OF MARITIME SPACE IN TRADITIONAL...

The present collection of essays has originally been prepared for an international conference
entitled Maritime Space in Traditional Chinese Sources which has been convened by the editors
at Munich University in February 2005. The contributions included here introduce various
aspects related to East Asian seas - from the Japanese Sea to the South China Sea  with the
Yellow and East China Seas constituting the core regions of the entire area - and some of its
adjacent areas. Although Braudelian categories are inherently present in the discussion and
directly addressed in one or two papers  the focus lies on a set of more basic variables  which
are intimately linked to the idea of contact zones  or alternatively  the parallel (and
apparently older) notion that the sea should be seen as a protective belt around the mainland.
This volume is consequently primarily concerned with the perception of maritime space in
traditional Chinese sources  the division of this space into oceans and seas  the existence 
usage and management of trade routes  and  above all  of China's coastal waters  or maritime
periphery. For this purpose  in addition to textual sources  maps will be examined as well. As
the perception  division and management of maritime space cannot be completely disassociated
from other themes - such as trade and travel  diplomacy and military controls  or even daily
life during a sea voyage - these aspects were also touched upon in the discussion. But they are
of secondary importance and subordinated to the general issue of geography. With this in mind 
following an introductory essay by Angela Schottenhammer  the contributions are divided into
three sections: (1) Maritime Space: Trade and Defence  (2) Maritime Space: Coasts  Routes 
Oceans  (3) Maritime Space and Maps. The articles by Chang Pin-tsun  Jane Kate Leonard and Jung
Byung-chul fall into the first category. Those by Chen Bo   Liu Yingsheng  Sally K. Church 
Christine Moll-Murata  Li Tana and Mathieu Torck belong to the second group  while the last
section is comprised by the papers of Li Xiaocong  Claudine Salmon and Roderich Ptak.There are
many cross connections between these essays. Geographically  some of them pertain to the
northern spheres  especially the Liaodong-Korea region  others look at the South China Sea  or
even at areas far beyond these two. Some are case studies  others deal with general dimensions.
The military element  usually in the form of coastal defence  is not only present in the first
section  but also in the cartographic segment  and in one or two contributions which appear in
part two. Furthermore  readers will find that the idea of contact zones  associated with a good
degree of open-mindedness towards the outer world  is present in some texts  just as they will
discover that in other cases  the sea still appears as a kind of barrier.

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