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My research on East Asian maritime history attempts to challenge earlier approaches to this topic, and add my own new research to qualify previous studies.

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Knowledge about China past and present is always important.

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It is always important to know how scholars approach a topic.

Harriet Zurndorfer
Universiteit Leiden

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This page is a summary of: The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, written by Lúcio De Sousa, Journal of Early Modern History, April 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15700658-12342020-02.
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