TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wang,Gungwu
TI  - The Nanhai trade: the early history of Chinese trade in the South China Sea 
SN  - 9812100989
AV  - HF3838.A7842 W36 1998
U1  - 382/.0951059 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Times Academic Press
KW  - Handelswegen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Zeevervoer
KW  - China
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Asia del Sudeste
KW  - Comercio
KW  - Historia
N1  - Originally published: Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1958; Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-134) and index; 1; South to Nan Yueh, 221 111 B.C; 2; A Passage to Huang chih, 111 B.C.A.D. 220; 3; A Mission to Fu nan, 220 420; 4; The Tribute of Holy Things, 420 589; 5; The Needs of an Emperor, 589 618; 6; Ports, Markets and Officials, 618 960 (I); 7; The Middlemen and the Spices, 618 960 (II); 8; The Limitations of the Trade; App. A; Mission from the Nanhai, A.D. 1 960; App. B; The Persian Sea Trade with China before the Seventh Century
N2  - The Nanhai trade was the ancient maritime trade between China and Southeast Asia. China's dealings with the West, at this time, extended as far as India and Ceylon and, with a stretch of the imagination, Persia. This study examines the various features of the trade with Southeast Asia, especially the economic background and the Chinese imperial and regional attitudes towards it during the eleven centuries before the foundation of the Sung dynasty in 960 - roughly the period from the Han dynasty to that of the T'ang
ER  -