[Part Ⅰ] Discourses on the Maritime Silk Road
1. The Maritime Silk Road and the Methodological Seaport City
2. Conceptual Studies of the Sea Silk Road: The Cognitive Focus of South Korea, China, and Japan
3. Research on the Maritime Silk Road and Marine Culture

[Part Ⅱ] The Historical Maritime Silk Road
4. The Relationship of the Maritime Silk Road and the Inland Silk Road in the 14-15th Centuries
5. Jang Bogo and the Yellow Sea Silk Road
6. The Yellow Sea Route of the 9th Century through Choi Chiwon’s Poetry
7. The Formation and Utilization of Maritime Routes during the Koryo and Song Dynasties
8. The Significance of Silla Residents on Eurasian Maritime Silk Roads: From a New Perspective on East Asian Mediterranean Sea Theory
9. The Oceans of East Asia in the 17th Century and the Transitionof the Maritime Silk Route
10. East-West Cultural Exchanges in the Indian Ocean through Faxian’s Voyage (409-412)
11. The Role of Archaeology in the Study of Maritime Buddhism in India
12. Ships on the Maritime Silk Road
13. “Nanhai I” (南海I?), A Wreck on the Maritime Silk Road

[Part Ⅲ] The Maritime Silk Road in the Age of Globalization
14. The Maritime Silk Road: Invoking the Past to Imagine the Future
15. Recreating the Silk Road: Conceptual and Institutional Aspects in an International Context
16. Geo-Economic and Geo-Cultural Stakes in the New Maritime Silk Road
17. Seaport Cities and Cosmopolitanism in the Globalization Era
18. The Transnational Maritime Silk Road and the Cosmopolitan Commons

This book is one of the products of the Korean Maritime Silk Road Expedition of 2014 which was a joint-project and was co-sponsored by Korea Maritime and Ocean University and Gyeongsangbuk-do, in South Korea. The expedition was conducted for 87 days from September 25th to December 10th in 2014. The exploration party, made up of 150 members, completed voyages linking sixteen seaport cities in fourteen countries for a total distance of 27,000 kilometers on the Hanbada, a 6,586-ton marine training ship from Korea Maritime and Ocean University.

During this period, the Institute of International Maritime Affairs from Korea Maritime and Ocean University held two international symposiums. One was the Guangzhou symposium from September 20th-22nd, in which 11 theses were presented, and the other was the Mumbai symposium from October 16th-17th, in which 13 theses were issued. The common theme of the two symposiums was the Maritime Silk Road and Seaport Cities, which is the title of this book.

The international symposiums in which experts from South Korea, China, India, and Japan participated got particular attention as the Maritime Silk Road is a current hot issue and came with enthusiastic discussions. This book consists of 19 theses presented at the symposium and the academic essays reflect the results of many discussions. It is broadly divisible into three main parts: discourses on the Maritime Silk Road, the historic Maritime Silk Road, and the Maritime Silk Road in the age of globalization.