My thanks to all for their suggestions of readings on Song Yuan relations. Richard von Glahn, "The Ningbo-Hakata Merchant Network and the Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150–1350." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 74.2 (2014): 249-79. has sent me the following. Since he is not on the listserve I am forwarding this. Peter Bol ________________________________ From: Richard Von Glahn <vonglahn@history.ucla.edu> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 4:41 PM To: Bol, Peter K.; listserv@mail.songyuan.org Subject: RE: Song and Japan Dear Peter, The most important studies (focused on economic & cultural exchange, not so much on diplomacy) are: Yamauchi Shinji 山内晋次, Nara Heianki no Nihon to Ajia 奈良平安期の日本とアジア (Tokyo: Yoshikawa kōbunkan, 2003) Enomoto Wataru 榎本渉, Higashi Ajia kaiiki to Nihon kōryū: kyū-jyūshi seiki 東アジア海域と日本交流：九—十四世紀 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2007) Hotate Michihisa 保立道久, Ōgon kokka: Higashi Ajia to Heian Nihon 黄金国家：東アジアと平安日本 (Tokyo: Aoki shoten, 2004) Charlotte von Verschuer’s Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries (Cornell, 2006; originally published In 1988) is probably the most accessible thing in English, although it’s largely descriptive (there’s a 2014 revised edition in French, nicely illustrated). The 20-volume Ningbo Project (published under the general title 東アジア海叢書 and the general editorship of Kojima Tsuyoshi) of course has many essays on all manner of Song-Japan relations. Lastly I would mention as the best bibliographic reference for East Asian maritime history (mostly Japanese, to be sure, but also including Chinese & Western language materials) the following: Momoki Shirō 桃木至郎, ed., Kaiiki Ajia shi kenkyū nyūmon 海域アジア研究入門 (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 2008)