We are delighted to announce the publication of the book, Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times, edited by Paola Calanca, Liu Yi-chang and Frank Muyard. This volume examines the maritime history and prehistory of Taiwan, with particular attention paid to the often neglected pre-17th century periods. It expands our understanding of the island’s past and its nautical environment, and highlights the persistence of Taiwan’s relationships with its neighbors, first through the maritime activities of Austronesian peoples, then around the 2nd millennium AD by way of the Minnan sailors. Supported by a multidisciplinary approach, the works presented herein showcase recent advances in archaeological and historical research on these issues. It documents the natural maritime and climatic environment of Taiwan, its first Neolithic communities, their diversification up to the 1st millennium AD, and the integration of the island into Chinese and European maritime networks. It illustrates and explores the island societies’ cultural and commercial connections with populations and polities across the South and East China Seas as well as the nautical knowledge underpinning these relations.  


https://publications.efeo.fr/en/livres/964_taiwan-maritime-landscapes 


Table of contents: 

Paola CALANCA & Frank MUYARD
Introduction: An Island Tossed by Asian Currents  

Frank MUYARD
Taiwan’s Place in East Asian Archaeological Studies  

Lionel L. SIAME & Guillaume LEDUC
Climate Changes and Neolithic Human Migration “Out of Taiwan”  

LIU Yi-chang
Taiwan Prehistoric Maritime Trade Networks and their Impacts  

TSANG Cheng-hwa
Cross-Strait Migration during the Early Neolithic Period of Taiwan  

CHIANG Chih-hua
Possible Relationships between Taiwan and the Southern Ryukyu Islands during the Early Neolithic Period  

CHEN Yu-mei
The Austronesian Dispersal: A Lanyu Perspective  

LIU Yi-chang
Interactions and Migrations between Taiwan and the Philippines from the Neolithic to the Early Metal Age  

Aude FAVEREAU & Bérénice BELLINA
Reviewing the Connections between the Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula and the Philippines during the Late Prehistoric Period (500 bc–ad 500)

Hugh R. CLARK
Textual Sources on Cross-Strait Contact through the 1st Millennium ad  

CHEN Kuo-tung
Chinese Knowledge of the Waters around Taiwan from the 16th to the 18th Century  

Manel OLLÉA 
Century of Contacts between Manila and Taiwan in Spanish Sources (1582–1683) 

Paola CALANCA
The Maritime Environment around Taiwan: Perception and Reality  

Roger BLENCH
Restructuring our Understanding of the South China Sea Interaction Sphere: Evidence fromMultiple Disciplines

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