演講: Pierre-Yves MANGUIN
21 JUNE 17
主講人：Prof. Pierre-Yves Manguin 莽甘教授
（法國遠東學院名譽教授）
講題：Innovations in North-South Sailing across the South China Sea
日期：2017 年 06 月 21 日（週三）15:00~17:00
地點：中研院 史語所 研究大樓703會議室
主持人：陳國棟研究員
摘要:
Two major economic nodes in Asian history have lied at the Northern and Southern ends of the South China Sea for more than two millennia: China and the Straits area of Insular Southeast Asia. How did one sail along this major thoroughfare of East Asian traffic? I will show that, until the second half of the 17th century, only a route closely following the coasts of Campa and Vietnam was in use. For centuries, the impossibility to assess the precise position of the Paracels and Macclesfield islands and banks and the dangers they present forced navigators of all nations to keep in sight of the coast until they had sailed away from their presumed position and extent. Some direct crossings appear to have taken place during the second half of the 17th century, however, but only when longitude reckoning was discovered at the end of the 18th century did navigators sail directly between the Singapore Strait and Guangdong.
主辦單位：
－中研院史語所
－法國遠東學院臺北中心
演講
（法國遠東學院名譽教授）
講題：Innovations in North-South Sailing across the South China Sea
日期：2017 年 06 月 21 日（週三）15:00~17:00
地點：中研院 史語所 研究大樓703會議室
主持人：陳國棟研究員
摘要:
Two major economic nodes in Asian history have lied at the Northern and Southern ends of the South China Sea for more than two millennia: China and the Straits area of Insular Southeast Asia. How did one sail along this major thoroughfare of East Asian traffic? I will show that, until the second half of the 17th century, only a route closely following the coasts of Campa and Vietnam was in use. For centuries, the impossibility to assess the precise position of the Paracels and Macclesfield islands and banks and the dangers they present forced navigators of all nations to keep in sight of the coast until they had sailed away from their presumed position and extent. Some direct crossings appear to have taken place during the second half of the 17th century, however, but only when longitude reckoning was discovered at the end of the 18th century did navigators sail directly between the Singapore Strait and Guangdong.
主辦單位：
－中研院史語所
－法國遠東學院臺北中心
演講