Sino-Siamese Economic Relations without Tributes or Treaties

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652147
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Asian history
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Koizumi Junko 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 教授 (70234672)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: シャム / 中国 / 経済関係

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project explores the development of economic relations between Siam and China from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries when both countries had no formal diplomatic relations. It does this by focusing on how both countries managed and regulated the growing flows of goods and people between them without any formal institutional arrangements or channels for negotiation. Many issues were raised already from the 1870s. Siam, while maintaining its stance that no diplomatic representatives from China would be necessary, sometimes resorted to negotiations with Western powers and even international organizations to cope with the issues between China and Siam.

Free Research Field

東洋史