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    From Ming Refugees to Qing Subjects : The Transformation of Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia, 1650-1700

    From Ming Refugees to Qing Subjects : The Transformation of Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia, 1650-1700

    During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the relaxation of the Ming sea ban, along with the arrival of the Europeans, generated a multipolar environment in East Asia. It revolved around the intra-Asian exchange centered upon Chinese silk and Japanese silver, and a nascent global flow of New World bullion to China and spices for Western Europe. The situation changed during the mid-seventeenth century amid mounting restrictions on overseas contacts from the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan and the consolidation and militarization of Chinese merchants under the Zheng family. By 1683, when the Qing forced the Zheng to surrender and occupied their bastion of Taiwan, China had achieved naval preeminence in the East Asian sea lanes. Other than a few outposts, the Europeans had largely withdrawn from the area north of island Southeast Asia, which remained under the hegemony of the Dutch East India Company. In 1684, the Qing court legalized private trade and travel abroad, prompting another wave of overseas migration. Authorities in China and across eastern maritime Asia enacted policies that kept the Qing merchants and immigrants separate from the earlier Ming loyalists. Additionally, both groups of Chinese were accorded significant political, economic, and legal privileges. This infrastructure, backed by Qing naval power, paved the way for the “Chinese century” in maritime Asia.
    Event date: 09/11/2022
    Speaker: Dr. Xing Hang
    Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong

    Subjects:
    Area Studies and Chinese Studies
    Keywords:
    Chinese diaspora Chinese Qing Dynasty (China) Southeast Asia
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    PAIR distinguished lecture series 3 : on geospatial information science in the era of IoT

    PAIR distinguished lecture series 3 : on geospatial information science in the era of IoT

    Geospatial information science is a discipline that focuses on using geospatial information technology to understand people, places, nature and processes of the earth. IoT refers to Internet of things, the combination of sensors, software and other technologies to connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet. The era of IoT brings us opportunities and challenges for geospatial information science. In the keynote, five characteristics and three scientific issues of geo-spatial information science in the era of IoT are summarised.
    Event date: 06/09/2022
    Speaker: Prof. Daren Li
    Moderator: Prof. Christopher Chao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
    Panel members: Prof. Qingyan Chen, Prof. Qinhao Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
    Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research

    Subjects:
    Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    Keywords:
    Internet of things Geospatial data Spatial data mining
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