S. 2. 1. – Chinese Diasporas and Maritime Histories, 16th-19th Centuries

Chair: Steven B. Miles (Washington U. in St. Louis)

• Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden University) – The Chinese Maritime Diaspora in the Evolving Foundation of Eurasian Slavery Markets during the 16th Century
• Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Brown University) – Chinese in the Spanish Seaborne Empire: Joining the Pacific and the Atlantic Maritime Worlds
• Steven Miles (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) – Riverine and Maritime Cantonese Diasporas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries