来源：复旦大学历史地理研究中心
题目：新航路、中国水手、与中国帆船贸易的衰落（1780-1820）
New Sea Routes, Chinese Sailors and the Decline of the Chinese Junk Trade 1780-1820
报告人：范岱克（Paul A. Van Dyke），澳门大学历史系主任，副教授，著名汉学家.。代表性著作有The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845 （（广州贸易：1700-1845年中国沿海地区的商业与生活》）。多年来，他一直从事花了很珠三角地区的生活、贸易和社会等多方面的研究，目前正在撰写关于中国商人家庭的新历史。
主持人：周振鹤 教授
时间：2011年6月14日（周二）下午3：30
地点：光华楼西主楼史地所2201室
Three historical phenomenon, the development of new sea routes to China, the hiring of Chinese sailors aboard foreign ships and the decline of the Chinese junk trade, have until recently been only vaguely understood. New research shows that they were actually connected to each other in a cause and effect relationship. In the latter half of the eighteenth century, new sea routes were established in Asia that enabled foreign ships to sail to China at all times of the year. The new routes not only helped to make their voyages more cost effective, but also brought them into ports in Southeast Asia that had been traditionally frequented by Chinese junks. As foreign shipping in Asia entered these new markets, Chinese junks gradually lost their comparative advantages. As an early sign of these changes taking effect, after 1780 there was a corresponding rise in the number of Chinese sailors going aboard foreign ships to find work. As the junk trade continued to decline, more Chinese sailors were displaced and foreign captains took them in. These mariners were among the earliest Chinese to traverse globe. Some of them settled in foreign lands. Eventually China towns began to pop up around the world. In this talk, I will discussthe new research that has been done recently in maritime history which unlocks the mysteries behind these phenomenon, and shows how each was linked one to the other.
Paul A. Van Dyke is Associate Professor and Head of the History Department at the University of Macau. He is author of The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845 (Hong Kong University Press 2005). He has spent many years researching different aspects of life, trade, and societies in the Pearl River Delta, and has published many articles on those subjects. He is presently writing new histories of the Chinese merchant families.