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- The maritime regions of Southeast Asia played an important but varying role in connecting South Asia and China prior to the sixteenth century. With regard to commercial exchanges, traders, ships, and polities in Southeast Asia facilitated and sometimes controlled the flow of goods.
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This contribution examines Chinese engagement with the maritime world, specifically the greater Indian Ocean region, from the Neolithic Period to the ninth century AD. It highlights three key issues: the problems caused by the fact that the Chinese dynasties did not actively participate in maritime trade and exchanges until after the seventh ...
- Tansen Sen
- 2014
Southeast Asia is widely known as a crossroads for good reasons, yet its maritime history involves more than just being a stopover or destination for the journeys and aims of people coming from elsewhere—whether between India and China for the early period or later imperial powers’ procurement of resources and labor extraction.
Sep 16, 2019 · In this dynamic situation, it is important to understand two broad aspects: (a) the interests of local, regional as well as global powers; and (b) the key threats that pose a risk to free and open maritime space and sustainable exploitation of maritime resources.
- Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Rakhahari Chatterji
- 2019
By around the 2nd century BCE, the prehistoric Austronesian jade and spice trade networks in Southeast Asia fully connected with the maritime trade routes of South Asia, the Middle East, eastern Africa, and the Mediterranean, becoming what is now known as the Maritime Silk Road.
Both maritime areas, North and South of China Sea, have a very dense flow network, and interact both with inside Asia, i.e. the hinterland of each South-East Asia country, and the outside world. The south of China Sea has been the centre of economic transactions:
Chinese Trade in the Indian Ocean. By Jean Johnson. A background essay on the Ming Dynasty, its powerful trade networks and diplomatic missions as far as Africa and the Red Sea, and the domestic tensions that ultimately changed the course of world history.
