越南、雷州半岛和海南岛的时疫、贸易与地方崇拜

Abstract:Vietnam is geographically close to the Leizhou Peninsula and to Hainan Island，and the human connections between these sites go back thousands of years. But what connected the different peoples on these disconnected coasts still largely remains a mystery. This paper attempts to offer insights into these connections. It starts by examining epidemic data of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in this region，then moves on to look at the trade within，and the local worship shared throughout the region. These data seem to suggest a rather surprising frequency and intensity of contacts among the peoples in this region. As such this paper tries to shed some new light onto this shadowy corner of the South China Sea.

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