Sino-Malay trade and diplomacy from the tenth through the fourteenth century / Derek Heng.

Author
Heng, Derek Thiam Soon [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2009.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, maps

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Series
  • Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 121. [More in this series]
  • Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 121
Summary note
China has been an important player in the international economy for two thousand years and has historically exerted enormous influence over the development and nature of political and economic affairs in the regions beyond its borders, especially its neighbors. Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century examines how changes in foreign policy and economic perspectives of the Chinese court affected diplomatic intercourse as well as the fundamental nature of economic interaction between China and the Malay region, a subregion of Southeast Asia centered on the S.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • Sino-Malay interaction in the first millennium AD
  • China's economic relations with maritime Asia in the Song and Yuan periods
  • The Malay region's diplomatic and economic interactions with China
  • Malay and Chinese foreign representation and commercial practices abroad
  • China as a source of manufactured products for the Malay region
  • China's evolving trade in Malay products
  • Appendix A: Chinese imports to the Malay region, tenth through fourteenth century
  • Appendix B: Ceramics data from the Temasik-period sites, Singapore
  • Appendix C: Malay imports to China, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
ISBN
  • 9780896804753 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0896804755 ((electronic bk.))
LCCN
2009027735
OCLC
742512930
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