Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century

China has been an important player in the international economy for two thousand years and has exerted enormous influencee over the development and nature of political and economic affairs in the regions beyond its borders, expecially its neighbours. 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 centred on the Strait of Malacca.