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Port of Appeal: Examining the Socio-Materiality of Sino-Foreign Maritime Cultural Exchange at Liu Family Harbour, Taicang (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Ward.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite its agrarian origins, China has a steep seafaring tradition stretching back more than two millennia; its coastal ports and harbours used as transit points since ancient times. Located in the river-sea transit zone between Nanjing, the then capital, and the East China Sea, at the convergence of the Yangtze...