伊朗薩法維王朝為什麼要在十七世紀時派遣使團出訪泰國呢？而鴉片貿易和季風又是如何塑造出印度洋海域早期的交流樣貌呢？本期節目我們從2023年出版的《連結印度洋世界》（Connecting the Indian Ocean World）論文集來討論當代如何開始以印度洋作為區域主體的研究對象，並且介紹書中有趣的篇章。
關鍵字：季風、鴉片貿易、薩法維王朝、藍染、腹地
Why Did the Safavid Dynasty of Iran Dispatch a Diplomatic Mission to Thailand in the Seventeenth Century? How Did the Opium Trade and Monsoons Shape Early Patterns of Exchange in This Maritime Region?
In this episode, we delve into these questions through the lens of Connecting the Indian Ocean World, a collection of essays published in 2023. We explore how contemporary scholarship has increasingly centred the Indian Ocean as a distinct regional framework for historical inquiry, while also introducing some of the volume’s most intriguing chapters.
#Monsoon #Opium Trade #Safavid Dynasty #Indigo Dyeing #Hinterland
☯ 關於本書 ☯
《連結印度洋世界》探討了從近代到殖民時代存在的許多跨文化交流境況，幫助我們釐清十九世紀橫跨印度洋與大西洋的經濟網絡。本書以批判的歷史視角，討論了當時最大的馬來-印尼群島鴉片貿易市場、薩法維王朝對暹羅的使團以及與西非洲間的經貿關係等。
☯ About the book ☯
Connecting the Indian Ocean World examines the many overlapping linkages that existed from the early modern period and into the colonial era. It offers a clear understanding of the economic networks that extended across the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic during the 19th century. With a critical historical lens, the volume discusses themes like the opium trade in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago – the biggest opium trade market at the time; the Safavid mission to Siam; and the economic relationship between Pondicherry and West Africa, via France.
☯ 關於編者 ☯
拉德希卡·塞山
拉德希卡目前是浦那共生文理學院的客座教授。他的研究關注中世紀印度歷史連結的貿易和海上網路。
島田龍登
東京大學人文社會學研究院亞洲史系副教授。他透過日語與英語發表了大量關於近代印度洋世界網絡相關的論文。
☯ About the editors ☯
Radhika Seshan
Radhika retired as Professor and Head of the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly the University of Pune). She is now Visiting Faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune. Within the broad area of medieval Indian history, her research focuses on trade, especially in textiles, and maritime networks.
Ryuto Shimada
Ryuto is associate professor, Department of Asian History, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo. he has published extensively in Japanese and in English on aspects of the networks of the Indian Ocean world in the early modern age.
☯ 關於主持人 ☯
莫奴是加拿大籍華裔藝術家和策展人，他的研究主要側重在現當代的亞非交流與第三世界藝術家的創作，也對中心與邊緣、後殖民的歷史中產生的離散、身份認同與感知差異剛興趣。
致穎是臺灣視覺藝術工作者，他擅長運用聲音及影像等媒材進行創作，以探討全球資本化時代人類生存語境與環境體系之關聯，並多方關注全球南方當代社會之主體性研究與探查。
☯ About the hosts ☯
Lou Mo is a Chinese-Canadian artist and curator whose research focuses primarily on modern and contemporary exchanges between Asia and Africa, as well as the works of Third World artists. She is also interested in the dynamics of center and periphery, diaspora, identity, and the perceptual differences emerging from post-colonial history.
Musquiqui Chihying is a Taiwanese visual artist. Specialising in the use of multimedia such as film and sound, he investigates the human condition and environmental system in the age of global capitalisation and engages in the inquiry of and research on issues of subjectivity in contemporary social culture in the Global South.