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The Ryukyus and Taiwan in the East Asian Seas: A Longue Duree Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Lin Man-houng
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Traveling through East Asia, one can view historic imperial palaces in Beijing and Tokyo, and royal palaces reconstructed from the ruins left by fire and war in Seoul and Naha. Okinawa is the largest island in the Ryukyu archipelago. The Shuri palace in its capital, Naha, was constructed more than six hundred years ago by the rulers of the Ryukyu kingdom, which played a crucial role in maritime East Asia from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Today, it takes barely an hour to fly from Taipei to Naha, and the Shuri castle, reconstructed three times in the last century, has been designated a World Heritage Site in an attempt to evoke its former grandeur.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , October 2006 , e22
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[1] China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808-1856, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, Chapter 1; Historical contemplations on relations between Taiwan and Chinese Mainland (in Chinese). Taipei: Maitian Press, 2002; “Elite Survival in Regime Transition: Government-Merchant Cooperation in Taiwan's Trade with Japan, 1950-1961,” in The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s, edited by Shigeru Akita and Nick White (London and New York: Ashgate, 2006); Review of Akamine Mamoru, “Ryukyu Kingdom” (in Chinese), Modern History Bulletin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, September 2006.

[2] See wwwjetro.gojp/jpn/stats/data/pdf/trade2005.pdf.