Xing Hang’s research currently focuses upon the Zheng family quasi-governmental mercantile organization, particularly its unique and profitable role in tying together the seventeenth-century maritime Asian trading lanes while struggling to define its legitimacy in terms of Confucian legacy and the imperial dynastic symbols of the Ming and Qing courts.
War, Trade and Piracy in the China Seas, 1622-1683
Brandeis University
November 28, 2016
