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Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century - The Ming Factor (Paperback)
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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 the Melayu-Muslim kingship in Melaka and
the creation of a new Muslim Javanese civilization on Java's north
coast. Coincident with these changes, Ming China's engagement with
Southeast 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.
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