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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heng, Derek Thiam Soon.

Series:

Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 121.

Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Commerce.

China--Commerce--Malacca, Strait of, Region.

China.

Malacca, Strait of, Region--Commerce--China.

Malacca, Strait of, Region.

China--Economic conditions--To 1644.

Economic conditions.

Malacca, Strait of, Region--Economic conditions.

Malay Peninsula Region--Economic conditions.

Malay Peninsula Region.

China--Relations--Malacca, Strait of, Region.

Malacca, Strait of, Region--Relations--China.

China--Relations--Malay Peninsula Region.

Malay Peninsula Region--Relations--China.

Physical Description:

xvi, 286 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2009]

Summary:

China has been an important player in the international economy for two thousand years and has 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 Strait of Malacca.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780896802711

089680271X

OCLC:

286479346