Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times

R. Bin Wong, Madeline Hsu, and David Igler lead a discussion about all of the presentations at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.”

Rainer Buschmann, of Purdue University, presents his paper “Competing Cartographies of the 18th-Century Pacific” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” His talk was part of the panel titled “Competing or Complementary Cartographies of the Pacific?”

Gary Okihiro, of Columbia University, presents his paper “Pacific Crossings: A Consideration” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” His talk was part of the panel titled “American Settings for Asian Culture.”

Erika Lee, of University of Minnesota, presents her paper “Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” Her talk was part of the panel titled “American Settings for Asian Culture.”

Robert Chao Romero, of UCLA, presents his paper “The Chinese Transnational Commercial Orbit, 1882¬–1940” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” His talk was part of the panel titled “American Settings for Asian Culture.”

Takeshi Hamashita, of Sun Yat-Sen University, presents his paper “Ryuku Trade Networks and Transformation of China Seas Connection: 15th to 19th Centuries” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” His talk was part of the panel titled “The Trans-Pacific China Trade as an Extension of Maritime Asian Trade.”

Li Min, of UCLA, presents his paper “Archaeological Ceramics and Cultural Encounters in the Early Trans-Pacific Trade” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” His talk was part of the panel titled “The Trans-Pacific China Trade as an Extension of Maritime Asian Trade.”

Caroline Frank, of Brown University, presents her paper “Object Lessons: The East Indies in the Anglo-American Imagination” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” Her talk was part of the panel titled “Cultural Features of the China Trade.”

Kariann Yokota, of Yale University, presents her paper “Pacific Overtures: America and the Trans-Pacific World of Goods” at the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.” Her talk was part of the panel titled “Cultural Features of the China Trade."

R. Bin Wong, of UCLA, introduces the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.”

John E. Wills Jr., of USC, introduces the first panel of the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.”

Robert C. Ritchie, the director of research at The Huntington, welcomes participants of the conference “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections Across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times.”