Research On The Relationship Between Ryukyu And China Under The Age Of Japanese Pirates

The 14-16th century is the heyday of the foreign trade of the Ryukyu Kingdom and is also one of the most historic historical periods in which Ryukyu paid tribute and trade to China.The Japanese pirates are also active in the same period of the Northeast Asian Seas and raging in the coastal areas of North Korea and China The plundering and smuggling brought about by it have produced a series of synergic influences on the multilateral relations between China,Korea,Ryukyu and Japan in the Ming Dynasty.Ryukyu,as an important transit trade base in the waters of Northeast Asia at that time,was also unavoidably affected and interfered with by the Japanese and Japanese pirates in the domestic affairs,foreign affairs,foreign trade and even culture.This article intends to analyze the linkage between the activities of Japanese pirates and the bilateral relations between Ryukyu and China in the two periods identified by domestic and foreign scholars.Under the background of the current international environment in East Asia,Longitudinal study with the dimension of period.