Legal Notice & Privacy Policy

Prof. Dr. Angela Schottenhammer,
Professor of Chinese Middle Period & Early Modern World History
KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, History Department
Blijde Inkomststraat 21 – bus 3307
B–3000 Leuven
E-mail: angela.schottenhammer@kuleuven.be
Tel.: +32 16 33 06 33

Website design: Marke [ Text

Image sources:

Title: 1710 First Japanese Buddhist Map of the World Showing Europe, America, and Africa – Geographicus – Nansen Bushu-hotan.

Chinese Sources on Maritime Asia: 長崎港図|Chinese Ships at Nagasaki, Unidentified Artist ca. 1840, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

ERC AdG Transpacific: Image 12 of Juan 3 and Image 1 of Juan 4, Aleni, Giulio, Zeng Yi, Tingyun Yang, Zhicao LI, Xianggao Ye, Matteo Ricci, and Chinese Rare Book Collection. Zhi Fang Wai Ji: Liu Juan, Juan Shou Yi Juan. [Min i.e. Fujian Sheng: publisher not identified, Ming Tianqi 3 nian, 1623] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012402472/.

Video Documentation – Piracy in Historical Asia: Wakō zukan 倭寇图卷 (Scroll showing Wakō pirates in action), late Ming 明 dynasty (1368–1644), an illustrated map showing attacking Wakō pirates and Chinese defence measures. Courtesy of the Historiographical Institute (Shiryō hensanjo 史料編纂所), University of Tōkyō.

Seafaring, Trade and Knowledge Transfer:清國漂流圖 (Call Number: ル2 3129), Waseda University Library.

EU dispute settlement

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Liability for the content of this website

We are constantly developing the content of this website and endeavour to provide correct and up-to-date information. Unfortunately, we cannot assume any liability for the correctness of all contents on this website, especially for those provided by third parties. Should you notice any problematic or illegal content, please contact us immediately, you will find the contact details in the imprint.

Liability for links on this website

Our website contains links to other websites for the content of which we are not responsible. If you notice any illegal links on our website, please contact us, you will find the contact details in the imprint.

Copyright notice

All contents of this website (pictures, photos, texts, videos) are subject to copyright. If necessary, we will pursue the unauthorized use of parts of the contents of our site legally.

The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. We, therefore, process your data exclusively on the basis of the statutory provisions (DSGVO, TKG 2003). In this data protection information, we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within the framework of our website.

Contact by email

If you contact us by e-mail, your data will be stored by us for six months for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. These data will not be passed on without your consent.

Server data

For technical reasons, in particular to ensure a secure and stable Internet presence, data is transmitted to us or to our web space provider via your Internet browser. With these so-called server log files, the type and version of your Internet browser, the operating system, the website from which you switched to our Internet presence (referrer URL), the website(s) of our Internet presence that you visit, the date and time of the respective access and the IP address of the Internet connection from which the use of our Internet presence is made are collected.

This data will be stored temporarily, but not together with other data from you.

Our goal is the improvement, stability, functionality and security of our website.

The data will be deleted at the latest after seven days, as far as no further storage is necessary for evidence purposes. Otherwise, the data will be completely or partially excluded from deletion until the final clarification of an incident.

Information/revocation/deletion

In principle, you are entitled to the rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data transferability, revocation and objection. If you believe that the processing of your data violates the data protection law or your data protection claims have otherwise been violated in any way, you can complain to the supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the data protection authority.