The Ideological Underpinnings of Private Trade in East Asia, ca. 800–1127

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  • SATTLER GREGORY
    University of California, Los Angeles: PhD Student, Department of History

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This article seeks to add greater depth to our understanding of merchants in East Asia by examining their associations with state officials throughout much of the region. In particular, this study demonstrates a strong link between diplomacy and private trade in Sino-Japanese relations from the late ninth to early twelfth century, which challenges the narrative that Japan’s diplomatic initiatives had ceased by this time. By offering an assessment of merchants and scholarofficials in East Asia through the lens of intellectual, social, and trade history, new perspectives are revealed that call for a reassessment of the relationship between Confucian ideology and commercial exchange, as well as our understanding of inter-regional interaction in premodern East Asia.

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