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xiv Introduction

Tai-kang Lu
Taiwan and Macao had been two vital transit seaports for the international trade
during early maritime globalization of the seventeenth century. The Kraak
Porcelains Discovered from Taiwan and Macao, and Their Relationship with the
Manila Galleon Trade by Tai-kang Lu described the archaeological discovery
of the Chinese Kraak porcelains from Taiwan and Macao, and Japanese Kraak-style
Hizen wares from Taiwan, which had been traded by the Spanish, Dutch, and
Portuguese. The presentation revealed the phenomenon of multiceramic transit
trade of Chinese and Japanese ceramics in the international maritime trade.

Etsuko Miyata

As one of the important seaport of East Asia, Nagasaki had also traded with
Manila galleons from 1570 to 1639, resulting some interesting aspects such as
migration, ceramics, and art influence to New Spain via Manila. Etsuko Miyata’s
paper Ceramics from Nagasaki: A Link to Manila Galleon Trade introduced
archaeological materials of traded porcelains from Nagasaki, analyzing the types
and quantities, and compared the recovered pieces from Mexico of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. This research proved connection of Nagasaki with the
Paci!c galleon trade, majorly via the Chinese merchants who directly connected
Nagasaki, Manila, and Fujian.