Li Dan (magnate)

For other people named Li Dan, see Li Dan (disambiguation).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Li Dan (Chinese: 李旦 / 李旭; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Tàn / Lí Tòaⁿ; Christian name: Andrea Dittis (李旦, [アンドレア・デッチス] Error: {{nihongo}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1: ア) (help)); died 1625) or Li Tan or Litõa, was an influential Overseas Chinese merchant, Chinese community leader, and pirate. He was a prominent early 17th century Chinese merchant and political figure, originally from Quanzhou in Fujian province.[1][2][3]

Li operated out of Spanish Manila as the Captain of the Sangley Chinese there for a time before moving to Hirado, in Japan and becoming a part of the shuinsen trade, with a formal vermillion seal license from the Tokugawa shogunate.[2] He served as head (チナ・カピタン / 唐人街の頭目) of the Chinese community in Hirado, and maintained a residence in the English sector of the city.[3]

Pedro Yan Shiqi reportedly been the second of command of Li Dan.[4]

Following his death, Li Dan's business was inherited by Zheng Zhilong, along with his role in the community.[1][3]

References

1. Andrade, Tonio (2008). How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231128551. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
2. Mateo, José Eugenio Borao (2009). The Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626-1642: The Baroque Ending of a Renaissance Endeavour. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789622090835. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
3. Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (2016). Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800. Routledge. ISBN 9781351918107.
4. Mateo, José Eugenio Borao (2009-10-01). The Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626-1642: The Baroque Ending of a Renaissance Endeavour. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-083-5.

• This article's content is based on that from the corresponding article on the Japanese Wikipedia.