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Kaiiki-Shi and World/Global History: A Japanese Perspectiveing interest in world/global history, kaiiki-shi certainly established its position in Japanese academia. Its perspective unveils cross-boundary communications and makes us realize the existence of a rich ‘worlds’ across conventional boundaries. From this perspective, national boundaries are dissolv

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The Structure and Transformation of the Ming Tribute Trade System the mid- fifteenth century, ‘mutual trade’ and smuggling trade gradually developed along the maritime and inland peripheries. In around 1570, the Ming court was obliged to permit mutual and tributary trade with the Mongols and visiting trade by the Chinese merchants to Southeast Asia, and Europeans