Author Description

Examines the various features of Chinese trade across southeast Asia and as far west as Indian and Ceylon from about 211 BC to the founding of the Sung dynasty in 960 AD. Looks especially at the economic background and the Chinese imperial and regional attitudes toward it, and at political struggles between Chinese and other people and among themselves. First published as the June 1958 issue of the Journal of the Malayan Branch, Royal Asiatic Society and here corrected but not revised or updated. No index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.