Empires, Systems, and Maritime Networks : Reconsidering Supra-Regional History in Pre-19th Century Asia

这项联合研究的目的是提供一个论坛，比较从9世纪到19世纪东亚海洋领域和印度洋及其周围的亚洲帝国和区域政治和商业网络的特点和联系。会议特别强调审查以帝国为中心的区域经济秩序的出现和维持，以及商业和政治网络在帝国内部区域和国家一级一体化的创建和发展中的作用。还审议了这些区域经济体之间的相互联系及其影响。

This joint research was intended to provide a forum to compare and contrast the characteristics of and linkages between Asian empires and regional political and commercial networks in and around the East Asia maritime realm and the Indian Ocean from the 9th to the 19th centuries. Particular stress was placed upon examining the emergence and maintenance of empire-centred regional economic order, and the role of commercial and political networks in the creation and development of regional and state-level integration within empires. The interconnections among those regional economies and their impacts were also considered.