A Study of Chinese Piracy Problems in Southeast Seas(1912-1937) / 民國東南沿海海盜之研究(1912-1937)

碩士 / 國立中央大學 / 歷史研究所 / 100 / Bandits’ problem was a serious issue. Domestic bandits could be simply divided into the northeast of China(東北) of Horse Thief, the bandits of Hebei(河北) and the Guangdong(廣東) banditry, in short, the mountain for the thief, the sea for the Pirates. The pirates, in fact, already existed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the change of dynasty, the problem of piracy showed the character different than before.
The organization of chinese pirates were small scale. The ways of predatory were various. And the transition of the traditional cold weapons to hot weapons used, pistols and rifles were the hot goods. Some pirate leaders were educated, at the same time, it also showed some women pirates active in the ocean.
The component of the pirates was believed that the coastal fishermen. According to statistics, coastal fishermen could not live by simple salary. It made them to take adventure becoming pirates. However, the groups of pirate were very complex. Especially, the army was the most important sources for the soldier to bandits. And the government could not handle the confusions.
This article used The Shine Pirates Relationship Books(支那海賊關係雜件)to discuss pirates problems. Other data liked newspapers, government laws, monographs, etc. More importantly, the piracy cases before were limited by domestic law until foreign countries entered China, the piracy cases became an international dispute. On the other side, how the Chinese government controlled coastal order and rescued shipwreck were the motivation and problems for this article.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NCU05493027
Date January 2012
CreatorsDing-Yu Jyang, 江定育
ContributorsTe-Lan Chu, Cheng-Chen Cheng, 朱德蘭, 鄭政誠
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format274

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