{"id":337,"date":"2016-01-09T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T02:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudnix10.netinfiniti.net\/portcitiesasia\/?p=337"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T02:42:47","slug":"port-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/2016\/01\/09\/port-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-337 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/2016\/01\/09\/port-cities\/brides-of-the-sea\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brides-of-the-Sea.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-364\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-364'>\n\t\t\t\tBrides of the Sea\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">What comes to mind when we think about port cities? And the Asian port city? Ships, sailors and the sea?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We are largely a terrestrial people and very often we think about the land rather than the water. National histories for example, tend to view the water as a way of &#8216;demarcating territory&#8217;. Maritime historians in recent times however, have argued that we can see the oceans as connective forces for new and comparative studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Examining the port cities of Asia is a way to re-orient our attention not only to the littoral (coastal) communities but to the water. Port cities provide us with points of connectivity via networks; people, goods and ideas circulated between ports. This gives rise to the observation that port cities are by their very nature porous and also outward looking. They are a &#8216;marriage of land and sea&#8217; as aptly captured in the book titled <em>Brides of the Sea<\/em>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What comes to mind when we think about port cities? And the Asian port city? Ships, sailors and the sea? We are largely a terrestrial people and very often we think about the land rather than the water. National histories for example, tend to view the water as a way of &#8216;demarcating territory&#8217;. Maritime historians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/2016\/01\/09\/port-cities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Port Cities?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}