The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China

​Chunming Wu, Doctorate of Maritime History, Xiamen University. Faculty of the South China Sea Institute, researcher of the Center for Maritime Archaeology and the Belt and Road Institute, Xiamen University. He was the professor of Humanity College of Xiamen University, and visiting scholarship of ACLS & Luce Foundation at University of Hawaii at Manoa, Harvard-Yenching Institute of Harvard University. Wu works on maritime archaeology, and prehistoric archaeology of early aboriginal cultures of southeast China and southeast Asia. He published monograph books as Archaeological Research to the History and Cultures of Prehistoric Aboriginals in Southeast China (1999), The Shipwreck Archaeology in Seas Surrounding China (2003), The Maritime Cultural Interaction between Indigenous Yue and Austronesian (2012), The Archaeological and Historical Research on the Maritime Cultural Heritage (2016), co-edited books as Archaeological Study on Southeast China (1996,1999,2003,2010), The Shipwreck Archaeology at Dinghai Bay of Lianjiang County, Fujian (2011), Journal of Bai Yue Studies  (2007, 2011,2012,2015), Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region (2016), Prehistoric Maritime Culture and Seafaring in East Asia(2019), Archaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization(2019), and more than 150 papers.

Introduction.- Part I: The Historical Record of the “Barbarians” Yue and Maritime Yi in the Southeast Frontier of Ancient Chinese Civilization.- Chap.1, “Central State- Four  Peripheries Barbarians- Four Seas”: the Spatially Cultural Order of Land-Sea Interaction of Early Chinese Civilization.- Chap.2, Southeastern Peripheries of Huaxia: the Historical Cultural Interaction and Assimilation from “Southern Man and Bai Yue” to “Island Yi and  Foreign Maritime Fan”.- Part II: The Archaeological Exploration on the Prehistoric Cultures in the Maritime Region of Southeast  Asia.- Chap.3, The Local Paleolithic Cultural Inheriting of the Maritime Region of Southeast Asia during the Early Neolithization around 10,000 years ago.- Chap.4, The Cultural Influence of Northern Huaxia in the Indigenous System of Geometric Stamped Pattern Pottery Remains of Southeast China During Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron age.- Part III :  The Ethnographical Investigation of the Maritime Cultural Heritages of the Indigenous  Yues in Southeast China.- Chap. 5, The Inheritance of Island Yi and the Acculturation  of Foreign Maritime Fan: The Cultural History of Maritime Essence of the Han People in South Coast of China.- Chap.6, Ethno-archaeological Analysis on the “Straw and Bark Weaving” Culture of Island Yi and Southern Man in Southern China and Southeast Asia.- Chap.7, Searching for the Prehistoric Seafaring Tool between Southeast Coast of China and Pacific Islands.- Chap.8, A Comparative Study of the Astronomical Navigation between Ancient China and Pacific Austronesian.- Part IV: Conclusion.- Chap.9, An Academic Overview on the Research of Cultural Relation of Ancient Indigenous Yue of Southeast Coast of China and Pacific Austronesian.