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Introduction xi

important entrance for the variant oversea exotic cultures introduced into China by
galleons and junks. A Historical Review on the Social-Cultural Impact of
Yuegang-Manila Navigation on the Ancient Chinese Civilization by Chunming Wu
provided the cases of maritime cultural interaction between the East and the West.
He listed a series of the historical documents and archaeological evidences to show
the maritime cultural gifts which the ancient China had received from Manila
galleon trade, such as the domesticated grains (sweet potato, maize, tomato,
tobacco, etc.), silver materials, silver coins from New Spain and !rearms from
Europe, and types of west architecture, revealing the maritime cultural contributions
of Europe and America to ancient China via galleons and Yuegang.
Part II: Manila Entreportting: Discovery of Galleon Trade Heritage at
Manila, Macao, Keelung and Nagasaki
As the premier entreport of Spanish galleon trade in East Asia, Manila had been one
of the most important seaports like Malacca, Batavia, Macao, and Canton of East
Asia where economically and culturally connected with Europe and America since
the middle sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Besides Manila and Yuegang, a
few of other seaports such as Macao in East Asia had also acted as essential
transferring hubs for import and export of the galleon cargoes. A few of papers
focused on Manila and these af!liated seaports presented plentiful archaeological
data revealing the complicated trading history of galleon cargoes linking the East
and the West.

Chunshui Zhou

As the top wanted international commodity, Chinese ceramics had been the main
cargoes for Europeans including Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish. The diversity of
types, designs, and quality of the Chinese ceramics resulting from these different
European markets was an important topic of export ceramic study. According to
ceramics discovered from shipwreck and land sites along the galleon routes,
Guanyu Wang presented An Analysis on the Chinese Porcelain in the Manila