The water frontier, an introduction / Li Tana -- Part 1. Permeable frontiers. Chinese trade and traders in the region -- Chinese trade and Southeast Asian economic expansion in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Anthony Reid -- Eighteenth-century Chinese pioneers on the water frontier of Indochina / Yumio Sakurai -- The principal junk ports trading between South China and Indochina's water frontier ports in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Ames Cong Chin -- Part 2. Commercial eddies and flows -- The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Mekong delta in the regional trade system / Li Tana -- The Nguyen Dynasty's policy toward Chinese on Vietnam's water frontier during the first half of the nineteenth century / Choi Byung-wook -- Siam and the contest for control of the Trans-Mekong trading networks from the later eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries / Puangthong Rungswasdisab -- Ships and shipbuilding in the Mekong Delta, c.1750-1840 / Li Tana -- Part 3. Beyond the water frontier -- Water world : Chinese and Vietnamese on the riverine water frontier, from Ca Mau to Tonle Sap (c.1850-1884) / Nola Cooke -- The internationalisation of Chinese revenue farming networks / Carl A. Trocki
Summary
This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the water frontier of the title
