Haellquist - Asian Trade Routes

ASIAN TRADE ROUTES

SCANDINAVIAN INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES

1. THE METHOD OF HOLDING THE THREE ONES
Poul Anderson

3. INDIA-CHINA COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
Erik Baark and Jon Sigurdson (Editors)

4. THE KAMMU YEAR
Kristina Lindell et al.

6. WOMEN IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
Bo Utas (Editor)

8. LEADERSHIP ON THE CHINA COAST
Goran Aijmer (Editor)

9. CHINA IN THE 1980s AND BEYOND
Birthe Arendrup et al. (Editors)

12. ISLAM: STATE AND SOCIETY
Klaus Ferdinand and Mehdi Mozaffari (Editors)

13. ASIAN TRADE ROUTES
Karl Reinhold Haellquist (Editor)

STUDIES ON ASIAN TOPICS NO. 13

Edited by
KARL REINHOLD HAELLQUIST

SCANDINAVIAN INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES
84 Njalsgade, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

First published 1991
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Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies 1991

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Asian trade routes: continental and maritime
(Studies on Asian Topics. ISSN 0142-6028)
1. Asia. Foreign Trade. History
I. Haellquist, Karl R. (Karl Reinhold)
II. Series
382.095
ISBN 0 7007 0212 1

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FARUK ABU-CHAKRA

ARTUR ATTMAN

LEONARD BLUSS

HARALD BCKMAN

WENG EANG CHEONG

HANS-DIETER EVERS

ANTHONY FARRINGTON

OLE FELDBAEK

McGUIRE GIBSON

IAN C. GLOVER

ERIK GBEL

EIICHI KATO

JAN KIENIEWICZ

IRENE NRLUND

MINORU MORI

JAN OOSTERHOFF

WALTER RAUNIG

THOMAS RIIS

H. W. VAN SANTEN

ARCADIO SCHWABE

NIELS STEENSGAARD

MAGDALENA TTAR

TON VERMEULEN

JOHN WANSBROUGH

BODO WIETHOFF

Research on trade between Asia and Europe is a familiar and prominent field of research in Copenhagen. The Scandinavian now renamed Nordic Institute of Asian Studies has benefited from its University of Copenhagen neighbours and colleagues. When the institute was inaugurated in 1968, Professor Kristof Glamann was the Director. He is a well-known pioneer in this field of research. Among scholars invited to give inauguration lectures were Professor Holden Furber, Philadelphia, and Professor C. R. Boxer, Bloomington. Even before the official inauguration, other specialists on Asian trade routes had given guest-lectures at the institute, for instance Professor Owen Lattimore, Leeds, and Professor Cheong Weng Eang, Hong Kong.

The inauguration lectures were published as No. 1 in the Monograph Series. Two Copenhagen doctoral dissertations, on Danish and Portuguese trade with Asia, by Ole Feldbk and Niels Steensgaard respectively, were published in the Monograph Series as Nos. 2 and 17. They are now professors at the University of Copenhagen, and both of them contribute to this volume. A former Research Fellow of the institute, now professor at Munich, Dr phil. Carl Steenstrup, has added to our knowledge about European trade with Asia, for instance through an article, Scandinavians in Asian Waters in the 17th Century, on Scandinavian participation in early Dutch navigation in Asia. The article was published in Acta Orientalia, a journal published at the institute as long as Professor Sren Egerod was both the editor and the director of the institute. In addition to the research pursued at the University of Copenhagen, archivists and scholars at the Danish National Archives, i.e. Erik Gbel and Thomas Riis, did research on Asian trade routes. Considering these traditions of research, it seemed logical to arrange an international conference on that topic.

The conference Asian Trade Routes was arranged at Krogerup, north of Copenhagen, in August 1984. The conference was arranged by Per Srensen, Research Fellow of the institute, and Professor Niels Steensgaard of the institute's Board in collaboration with colleagues and other specialists on specific Asian regions, who also chaired the sessions, Dr phil. Mogens Trolle Larsen, Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen, for the Middle East, Dr Karl R. Hllquist, Research Fellow of the institute, for South Asia, Dr Kristina Lindeil, University of Lund, for South East Asia, and Dr phil. Carl Steenstrup for the Far East. Professor Sren Egerod, Director of the institute, opened the conference with a welcoming address and Professor Kristof Glamann presided over the final session of the conference, which was summed up by Professor Niels Steensgaard.