Writing Pirates - 9780472038510

Writing PiratesVernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China\nAuthor(s): Yuanfei Wang\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472038510, 978-0472038510\nSynopsis\nIn Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called Japanese pirates raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories, and fiction of the period jointly narrate pirates and Chinas Orient in maritime Asia. Wang shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the other: foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors. At the center o.