Po, Ronald C.

Number of items: 40.
International History
  • Po, Ronald C. (2025). Saving souls from the depths: the society for rescuing the drowning (Zhengnitang) in late imperial China. International Journal of Maritime History, https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714251404392 picture_as_pdf
  • Chiang, Howard, Hu, Yu Ying, Po, Ronald C., Simon, Scott, Wu, Chia Rong (2025). Taiwan extra and the future of Sinophone studies. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-bja10182 picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (19 November 2025) Teaching the frontier to read: language, literacy and the making of modern China. LSE Review of Books. picture_as_pdf
  • Hang, Xing, Po, Ron (2025). China and Asia: a journal in historical studies: Special Issue on “China in the maritime worlds of Asia”. China and Asia: Journal in Historical Studies, 7(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465X-07010001
  • Po, Ronald C. (2025). The Dunn Map: an American and a long-forgotten curio from nineteenth-century China. Crossroads, 23(1), 1 - 35. https://doi.org/10.1163/26662523-bja10022 picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2025). The Camphor War: Taiwan in the age of imperial realignments. Cambridge University Press. [In Press]
  • Po, Ronald C. (2025-06-16 - 2025-07-03) Making and remaking tradition: a cultural history of shark fin [Poster]. Visions for the Future: LSE Festival exhibition, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, GBR. picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2025). The silver thread of the deep: a cultural history of shark fin in China and beyond. Harvard University Press. [In Press]
  • Po, Ronald C. (2024). 除莠安良，肅謐洋面: 道光朝的《閩浙總督奏辦洋匪盜稿文》看道光年間的區域海盜史. Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies, 67, 303-373. picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2024). China in the age of unequal treaties. In Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age (pp. 171-189). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863298.003.0007
  • Po, Ronald C. (2024). 藍色邊疆: 東亞海域中的清朝方略. 國立臺灣大學出版中心.
  • Po, Ronald C. (2024). Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Liverpool University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2024). Qing China and its offshore islands in the long eighteenth century. Historical Journal, 67(3), 430 - 462. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000626 picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2023). The Bohai Sea and Mount Penglai: in search of a maritime religiosity in Imperial China. Coastal Studies & Society, 2(3), 274 - 294. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349817231151509
  • Choi, Young Rae, Gao, Xiaofei, Po, Ronald C. (2023). Yellow sea studies: toward a cross-cultural and transboundary approach. Coastal Studies & Society, 2(3), 263-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349817231191307
  • Po, Ronald C. (2023). Consuming China in early modern England and beyond: a survey and reexamination. Asian Review of World Histories, 11(2), 180 - 209. https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10018 picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2023). Crafting a nation, fishing for power: the Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China. Modern Asian Studies, 57(4), 1219 - 1245. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X22000440 picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2023). Defining Chinese commodities in the early modern era: historical and conceptual analysis. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.624
  • Po, Ronald C. (2023). 高塔列遠岑，曙日平煙彩: 塔文化與長十八世紀英倫的中國風. In Chiu, K. & Huang, B. (Eds.), British Literature, Art and History in the Long Eighteenth Century (pp. 31-76). China Times Publishing Co.
  • Po, Ronald C. (2022). China and the Sea in Literature and (Mis)Perception, 1644–1839. In Jones, R. T. & Matsuda, M. K. (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean (pp. 549-573). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108539272.031
  • Po, Ronald C. (2022). Fortifying the maritime frontier: diagrams of coastal garrisons (Yingxun tu) in the Qing Empire. In Ming Qing Studies . WriteUp Books. picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2022). 手挽銀河水: 清季人物、歷史與記憶. China Times Publishing Co.
  • Po, Ronald C. (2022). Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier By Melissa Macauley. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. 362 pp. ISBN: 9780691213484 (cloth). Journal of Asian Studies, 81(1), 173-174. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821002485
  • Po, Ronald C. (2022). A review on Valerie Hansen’s The Year 1000: When explorers Connected the world and Globalization Began.
  • Po, Ronald C. (2021). 海不揚波: 清代中國與亞洲海洋. China Times Publishing Co.
  • Po, Ronald C. (2020). The Camphor War of 1868: Anglo-Chinese relations and imperial realignments within East Asia. English Historical Review, 0(0), 1 - 27. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa313 description
  • Po, Ronald C. (2019). Boundaries and Beyond: China's Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Times by Ng Chin-Keong. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. 518 pp. $56.00 (hardcover). Journal of World History, 30(3), 464-467. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2019.0053
  • Po, Ronald C. (2019). Hero or Villain? The evolving legacy of Shi Lang in China and Taiwan. Modern Asian Studies, 53(5), 1486-1515. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X17000737
  • Po, Ronald C. (2019). Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road. By Susan Whitfield. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xi, 339 pp. ISBN: 9780520281783 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Journal of Asian Studies, 78(1), 184-186. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911818002760
  • Pochet, Ronald C. (2018). The pearl by the Bohai Sea: Qinhuangdao in the early modern period. In Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World On China’s Global Historical Role (pp. 143-164). De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110587685-008
  • Po, Ronald C. (2018). The blue frontier: maritime vision and power in the Qing Empire. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108341134
  • Po, Ronald C. (2018). China and the Global South: a Geostrategic perspective. Radical History Review, 2018(131), 135-138. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355233
  • Po, Ronald C. (2018). Book review: Sea rovers, silver and Samurai: maritime East Asia in global history, 1550-1700. Journal of World History, 29(1), 118-120. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2018.0011
  • Po, Ronald C. (2018). A port city in Northeast China: Dengzhou in the Long eighteenth century. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 28(1), 161-187. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186317000244 picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2018). Tea, porcelain, and silk: Chinese exports to the West in the early modern period. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History . Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Po, Ronald C. (2017). 康雍年間的戰船修造與樟木採辦. In Mak, R. (Ed.), 近代中國海防史新論 . Joint Publishing Co. Ltd..
  • Po, Ronald C. (2016). Mapping maritime power and control: a study of the late eighteenth century Qisheng yanhai tu (a coastal map of the seven provinces). Late Imperial China, 37(2), 93-136. https://doi.org/10.1353/late.2016.0012
  • Po, Ronald Chung-yam (2016). The Qing opening to the ocean: Chinese maritime policies, 1684–1757. Business History, 59(2), 312-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2016.1192832
  • Po, Ronald C. (2015). Writing the waves: Chinese maritime writings in the long eighteenth century. American Journal of Chinese Studies, 22(2), 343-362.
  • Po, Ronald Chung-yam (2014). Maritime countries in the Far West Western Europe in Xie Qinggao's Records of the Sea (c.1783–93). European Review of History, 21(6), 857-870. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2014.960815