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Tan Yuanheng, Ao Ye Xiangqiong, Liao Wen

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Jin Zhiru

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September 2025

On the Maritime Culture of the South China Sea

Author: Tan Yuanheng, Ao Ye Xiangqiong, Liao Wen

Translator: Jin Zhiru

ISBN: 978-1-967368-09-9

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This book is published in its Original Edition with the title:

《中国南海海洋文化论》

By Tan Yuanheng, Ao Ye Xiangqiong, Liao Wen(谭元亨,敖叶湘琼,廖文)

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Translator’s Reflections

Jin Zhiru is a professor at the School of Foreign Studies, Guangdong Ocean University, with over 30 years of dedication to English teaching and research. She has been a research scholar at the University of Edinburgh (UK), the University of Adelaide (Australia), and the University of Warsaw (Poland) under the sponsorship of the China Scholarship Council, and pursued further studies at Embassy English Toronto (Canada) funded by the Education Department of Jilin Province.

CONTENTS

    Prelude
    Chapter 1 The Maritime Culture in the Pluralistic and Integrated Pattern of China
    Section 1 The Three Major Cultural Blocks of Chinese Culture
    Section 2 The Blue Oceanic Civilization
    Chapter 2 The Three Regions of Chinese Maritime Culture
    Section 1 The Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea
    Section 2 Maritime Commercial Culture or Maritime Agricultural Culture
    Section 3 Differences in Cultural Quality
    Chapter 3 The Characteristics of South China Sea Maritime Culture
    Section 1 The Evidence of Commercial Civilization
    Section 2 The Evidence of Overseas Migration
    Section 3 The Evidence of Language
    Chapter 4 The Traits of South China Sea Maritime Culture
    Section 1 Evaluations from Ancient Texts
    Section 2 Evaluations from Outsiders
    Section 3 Openness, Inclusiveness, Adventurousness, and More
    Chapter 5 A Historical Analysis of South China Sea Maritime Culture
    Section 1 The Origin of South China Sea Maritime Culture—The South China Sea Route
    Section 2 The Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties Period—Guangzhou Becomes China’s Most Important Foreign Trade Port
    Section 3 The Tang and Song Dynasties—The “Guangzhou Maritime Route to Foreign Trade” in Nanyang and Unprecedented Economic and Cultural Prosperity
    Section 4 The Ming and Qing Dynasties—The Blue Maritime Cultural Essence of the Enlightenment Thought in the Thirteen Hongs
    Section 5 Modern Era—Overseas Chinese and the Rise of National Industrial and Commercial Enterprises
    Chapter 6 The Cultural Study of the South China Sea Ethnic Groups
    Section 1 The Maritime Culture of the Guangfu People
    Section 2 The Maritime Culture of the Hakka People
    Section 3 The Maritime Culture of the Hokkien People
    Chapter 7 Academic Studies on South China Sea Maritime Culture
    Section 1 The Prominent Commercialism and New Concepts in the Early South China Sea Maritime Culture
    Section 2 A Review of Scholarly Works on South China Sea Maritime Culture
    Chapter 8 The Literary Study of the South China Sea
    Section 1 Maritime Literature and Ethnic Groups
    Section 2 The Vivid Representation of Blue Maritime Culture in the Works
    Section 3 The Causes of the Emergence of Blue Maritime Culture in the Works
    Section 4 The Practical Significance of the Blue Maritime Culture in the Works
    Conclusion The Cultural Resources and Historical Value of the South China Sea