Prof. Dr. Liu Yong

Research Field: History of Sino-Foreign relations

Research Interest: History of maritime trade

Office: Nanan Building 201(12)

E-mail: liuyong@xmu.edu.cn

Personal Profile

Work Experience

2018 - present

Professor, School of International Relations/School for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University

2007 - 2018

Associate Professor, School of International Relations/School for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University

2006 - 2007

Assistant Professor, School for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University

Education Background

2001 - 2006

PhD, History Department, Leiden University, the Netherlands

1998 - 2000

MA, Research School for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University

1994 - 1998

BA, History Department, Anhui University

Ajunct Academic Appointments

Committee member, China Society for Maritime History Studies

Researcher, Center for Tea Culture Studies, School of History, Wuhan University

Teaching Courses

History of Chinese Maritime Trade                                                Master degree course

History of International Communication of Chinese Tea              International master degree course

European Politics and Diplomacy                                                  Bachelor degree course

Consular and Overseas Chinese Affairs                                         Bachelor degree course

Publications

Monographs

1. The Dutch Tea Trade with China in the Early Modern Period, Beijing: China Social Science Publishing House, 2018.

2. The Dutch East India Company’s Tea Trade with China, 1757-1781, Leiden & Boston: Brill Publishers, 2007.

Articles

1. “Western trading companies’ purchase of tea in China during the Canton System period of Qing Dynasty: As an example of the Dutch East India Company”, Researches in Chinese Economic History, 2017 (1).

2. “The China Committee of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch-Chinese tea trade”, Journal of Xiamen University, 2013 (3).

3. “Chinese tea and the custom of tea drinking in the Netherlands from the seventeenth century on”, Historic Researches, 2013 (1).

4. “The commercial culture of the VOC in Canton in the eighteenth century”, Haneda Masashi (ed.), Asian Port Cities 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Culture Interactions, Singapore: NUS Press, 2009.

Research Projects

1. “The Dutch tea trade with China in the early modern period”, supported by the Humanities & Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China.

2. “Chinese tea and Europe in the early modern period”, supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China.