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Southeast Asia in the fifteenth century the China factor edited by Geoff Wade and Sun Laichen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Singapore NUS Press Aberdeen, Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press c2010.Description: xii, 508 pages illustrations (some color), maps 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789971694487 (Singapore
  • 9789888028481 (Hong Kong
Other title:
  • Southeast Asia in the 15th century
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959​.01 WAD
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: I.15TH-CENTURY SOUTHEAST ASIA AND MING CHINA OVERVIEWS 1.Southeast Asia in the 15th Century /​ Geoff Wade 2.Assessing the Ming Role in China's Southern Expansion /​ Sun Laichen II.DAI VIET AND THE MING 3.The Ming Factor and the Emergence of the Viet in the 15th Century /​ Li Tana 4.Paperwork: The Rise of the New Literati and Ministerial Power and the Effort toward Legibility in Dai Viet /​ John K. Whitmore 5.Nation and Geo-Body in Early Modern Vietnam: A Preliminary Study through Sources of Geomancy /​ Momoki Shiro 6.Contextualising the Book-Burning Episode during the Ming Invasion and Occupation of Vietnam /​ Alexander III.TAI AND KHMER POLITIES AND THE MING 7.Shan Gems, Chinese Silver and the Rise of Shan Principalities in Northern Burma, c. 1450-1527 /​ Sun Laichen 8.The Northern Tai Polity of Lan Na (Ba-bai Da-dian) in the 14th and 15th Centuries: The Ming Factor /​ Volker Grabowsky Contents note continued: 9.Agricultural Technology and the Consolidation of Tay Polities in Northern Continental Southeast Asia during the 15th Century /​ Christian Daniels 10.Cambodia and Its Neighbours in the 15th Century /​ Michael Vickery IV.MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE MING IV.MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE MING 11.Hybrid Identities in the 15th-century Staits /​ Anthony Reid 12.New Ships for New Networks: Trends in Shipbuilding in the South China Sea in 15th and 16th Centuries /​ Pierre-Yves Manguin 13.A Ming Gap? Data from Southeast Asian Shipwreck Cargoes /​ Roxanna M. Brown 14.Before and After Zheng He: Comparing Some Southeast Asian Archaeological Sites of the 14th and 15th Centuries /​ John N. Miksic.
Summary: The fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history---too late for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ships, ideas and economies in the early sixteenth century has long been seen as the origin of the early, modern era in Southeast Asia, but the present collection challenges this view, suggesting that intense and lasting political and economic changes were already well underway by 1500. -- The argument rests on developments such as the introduction of firearms, more intensive rice agriculture, Thai and Viet ceramic exports, Korean and Ryukyu contacts with Southeast Asia, the demise of Champa, the climax of Viet and northern Tai statecraft, the birth of Melayu-Muslim kingship in Melaka and the creation of a new Muslim Javanese civilisation on Java's north coast. Coincident with these changes, Ming China's engagement with Sourtheast Asia grew as a result of overland expansion into the Tai and Viet polities, state-sponsored maritime voyages, and private Chinese trade and migration to the region. -- Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor draws together the great changes that occurred in Southeast Asia during the fifteenth century, and considers the extent to which Ming China's engagement with the region helped usher in the early modern period of Southeast Asian history. --Book Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-479) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I.15TH-CENTURY SOUTHEAST ASIA AND MING CHINA OVERVIEWS 1.Southeast Asia in the 15th Century /​ Geoff Wade 2.Assessing the Ming Role in China's Southern Expansion /​ Sun Laichen II.DAI VIET AND THE MING 3.The Ming Factor and the Emergence of the Viet in the 15th Century /​ Li Tana 4.Paperwork: The Rise of the New Literati and Ministerial Power and the Effort toward Legibility in Dai Viet /​ John K. Whitmore 5.Nation and Geo-Body in Early Modern Vietnam: A Preliminary Study through Sources of Geomancy /​ Momoki Shiro 6.Contextualising the Book-Burning Episode during the Ming Invasion and Occupation of Vietnam /​ Alexander III.TAI AND KHMER POLITIES AND THE MING 7.Shan Gems, Chinese Silver and the Rise of Shan Principalities in Northern Burma, c. 1450-1527 /​ Sun Laichen 8.The Northern Tai Polity of Lan Na (Ba-bai Da-dian) in the 14th and 15th Centuries: The Ming Factor /​ Volker Grabowsky Contents note continued: 9.Agricultural Technology and the Consolidation of Tay Polities in Northern Continental Southeast Asia during the 15th Century /​ Christian Daniels 10.Cambodia and Its Neighbours in the 15th Century /​ Michael Vickery IV.MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE MING IV.MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE MING 11.Hybrid Identities in the 15th-century Staits /​ Anthony Reid 12.New Ships for New Networks: Trends in Shipbuilding in the South China Sea in 15th and 16th Centuries /​ Pierre-Yves Manguin 13.A Ming Gap? Data from Southeast Asian Shipwreck Cargoes /​ Roxanna M. Brown 14.Before and After Zheng He: Comparing Some Southeast Asian Archaeological Sites of the 14th and 15th Centuries /​ John N. Miksic.

The fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history---too late for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ships, ideas and economies in the early sixteenth century has long been seen as the origin of the early, modern era in Southeast Asia, but the present collection challenges this view, suggesting that intense and lasting political and economic changes were already well underway by 1500. -- The argument rests on developments such as the introduction of firearms, more intensive rice agriculture, Thai and Viet ceramic exports, Korean and Ryukyu contacts with Southeast Asia, the demise of Champa, the climax of Viet and northern Tai statecraft, the birth of Melayu-Muslim kingship in Melaka and the creation of a new Muslim Javanese civilisation on Java's north coast. Coincident with these changes, Ming China's engagement with Sourtheast Asia grew as a result of overland expansion into the Tai and Viet polities, state-sponsored maritime voyages, and private Chinese trade and migration to the region. -- Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor draws together the great changes that occurred in Southeast Asia during the fifteenth century, and considers the extent to which Ming China's engagement with the region helped usher in the early modern period of Southeast Asian history. --Book Jacket.

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