1 10 3 https://apconf-much.org/proceedings/files/original/8b42dd9a4a8bf469993b953e6b8fa67b.pdf 729d33e7a75141aec36f66fcaa5c8b84 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2021 Session 4: Heritage Preservation and the Journey of the Sailing Vessel Free China Subject The topic of the resource Session 4 papers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Museum of Underwater Archaeology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2021 Language A language of the resource English Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A study on historical evidence and its implications of the “Free China Junk” crew landed Diaoyutai Island in 1955 Description An account of the resource Diaoyutai Islands are a group of islands affiliated to Taiwan. There are many discourses on the sovereignty and legality of claim on the islands. This article firstly introduces the history of Taiwan's only ancient Chinese junk "Free China", describes its tortuous voyage and the process of salvaging it back to Taiwan, and highlights the importance of this cultural heritage. Following that, this research proves with historical evidence that the crew of the ship had visited the Diaoyutai Island in 1955 and to restore its image that it was an are of long held traditions for Taiwanese fishermen to to sail and fish. This article hopes that this historical study will provide alternative views and arguments for the discussion of Diaoyutai sovereignty and related issues from the perspective of cultural heritage preservation, traditional territory and sovereignity themes. The article also discusses the relocation of Free China from the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology (NMMST) to the National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) in 2019. Finally, it proposes several suggestions for future study on historic evidences and ship preservation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wen-Yan Chiau Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Museum of Underwater Archaeology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2021 Language A language of the resource English Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. Chiau, Wen-Yan. 2021. “A study on historical evidence and its implications of the “Free China Junk.” crew landed Diaoyutai Island in 1955.” Edited by Brian Fahy, Hans Van Tilburg, Bill Jeffery, T. Kurt Knoerl, and Riley Smith. In Proceedings of Fourth Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Keelung,Taiwan, and Virtual, November 1-5, 2021. The Museum of Underwater Archaeology URL: https://apconf-much.org/proceedings/exhibits/show/apconf-muchproceedings/item/678 Asia-Pac Session 4 2021 https://apconf-much.org/proceedings/files/original/3f74faa091ca2193bc4e60155e7b26e2.pdf 912548c30903d7a96047c00138444e0f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2021 Session 4: Heritage Preservation and the Journey of the Sailing Vessel Free China Subject The topic of the resource Session 4 papers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Museum of Underwater Archaeology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2021 Language A language of the resource English Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Pacific Crossing of a Fuzhou Flathead Pole Junk Description An account of the resource It is well documented that Chinese sailing vessels of a certain type and length (up to 200-meter and nine-masted vessels) had sailed the waters Magellan and Columbus “discovered” half a century later. But to this day, in the eyes of the modern mariners these Chinese vessels remain a myth. Why aren’t junks seen outside of China? Why are there no junks with more than two masts? Why was there no recording of any junk crossing the Pacific Ocean? Are they fit for ocean sailing? Five fishermen and one professional diplomat took upon themselves in 1955 to seek answers to the myth. With no previous experience in sails, they took a 50-year-old Fuzhou “flathead pole junk” across the Pacific. Through hands-on experience, these seafarers discovered the junk’s unique features that made her the most seaworthy vessel they had ever set foot on, namely the watertight bulkheads, the self-draining deck, the shroud-less masts, the slanting foremast, the self-adjusting ballast tank, the battens that stretched the sails from luff to reach, the automatic reefing and an adjustable rudder that also served as a center-board. These Chinese vessels had explored the seas beyond China for thousands of years with one purpose: Trade and Cultural Exchange. Since there was not much culture and trade to the east of China before the 17th Century, the Pacific was left out. After the death of Emperor Zhu Di in Ming Dynasty, Confucians took over the ruling of the court from the adventure-seeking Eunuchs. They enforced a strong closed-door policy. Under this policy, all oversea voyages were banned. No ships with more than two masts were allowed. Violators were punishable by decapitation. As time went on, the tradition lasted to the day when steamships took over. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Paul Chow Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Museum of Underwater Archaeology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2021 Language A language of the resource English Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. Chow, Paul. 2021. “The Pacific Crossing of a Fuzhou Flathead Pole Junk.” Edited by Brian Fahy, Hans Van Tilburg, Bill Jeffery, T. Kurt Knoerl, and Riley Smith. In Proceedings of Fourth Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Keelung,Taiwan, and Virtual, November 1-5, 2021. The Museum of Underwater Archaeology URL: https://apconf-much.org/proceedings/exhibits/show/apconf-muchproceedings/item/679 Asia-Pac Session 4 2021 https://apconf-much.org/proceedings/files/original/0037e0d2e87477eee0c40cad8dfb0ebf.pdf 52ea01e0512fd17b928ed70eef8d5ef2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2021 Session 4: Heritage Preservation and the Journey of the Sailing Vessel Free China Subject The topic of the resource Session 4 papers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Museum of Underwater Archaeology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2021 Language A language of the resource English Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Technology from Overseas: Misunderstanding Vessels from Afar Description An account of the resource In the maritime heritage preservation field, we preserve what we value, and (perhaps) we only value what we truly understand. The nautical technology of traditional Chinese sailing vessels that crossed the Pacific, often demonstrated through the stories of their voyages, have now opened a window for non-Chinese to understand more of the maritime heritage of China and the legacy of Chinese seafaring. Yet, when the Western public first began to encounter these unfamiliar vessels, very few were capable of understanding what they were seeing. With the exception of the few nautical experts of the time, most could not grasp the technical or cultural construction features. Foreign observers were hampered by their social biases, reluctant to grant maritime expertise to shipwrights and sailors from a non-European tradition, unable to recognize the obvious skills that produced vessels so unfamiliar to their own experiences. They regarded Chinese vessels as quaint and unwieldy creations, derived somehow by accident, or built after the fashion of sea monsters. Vessel designs were generally thought to represent "ancient times," no matter where or when they may have truly originated. Public appraisals often comprised an odd mixture of surprise and contempt. As we now know, the exact opposite was often true: the Chinese vessels that found their way to scattered ports across the Pacific were complex craft. Most represented successful regional designs evolved over many years of trial and error on long sailing voyages. The Free China was one of the vessels that successfully crossed the Pacific, yet was then subject to some of this foreign bias and misunderstanding. The obstacles faced, therefore, in the preservation story of the Free China include not just the storms of her ocean passage and the ravages of shipworms and weathering over time, but also inherent biases and misunderstandings during her sojourn to the West. Maritime encounters on the global ocean, including Western experience with versions of Chinese traditional ship design, sometimes tell us more about our own limitations as humans, than they do about the amazing variety of nautical design within our shared maritime past. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hans Van Tilburg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Museum of Underwater Archaeology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2021 Language A language of the resource English Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. Van Tilburg, Hans. 2021. “Technology from Overseas: Misunderstanding Vessels from Afar.” Edited by Brian Fahy, Hans Van Tilburg, Bill Jeffery, T. Kurt Knoerl, and Riley Smith. In Proceedings of Fourth Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Keelung,Taiwan, and Virtual, November 1-5, 2021. The Museum of Underwater Archaeology URL: https://apconf-much.org/proceedings/exhibits/show/apconf-muchproceedings/item/680 Asia-Pac Session 4 2021