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Notes On the Relations and Trade of China With the Eastern Archipelago and the Coast of the Indian Ocean During the Fourteenth Century

Notes On the Relations and Trade of China With the Eastern Archipelago and the Coast of the... NOTES ON THE RELATIONS AND TRADE OF CHINA WITH THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO AND THE COAST OF THE INDIAN OCEAN DURING THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY PART I BY W. W. ROCKHILL. I. ' ' The trade of China with the countries of southern Asia and the islands of the Eastern Archipelago reached its greatest extension during the southern Sung dynasty, in the llth and 12th centuries. The imports into China in this trade consisted of two distinct . categories of goods, the one manufactured textile fabrics, (mostly of cotton), spices and drugs, and the other, and by far the most valuable intrinsically, jewels and semi-precious substances, such as ivory, rhinoceros horn, ebony, amber, coral and the like, and various . aromatic products and perfumes, used either in the preparation of incense or for perfuming the body. During the earlier part of the Sung dynasty the Government used its best efforts to encourage the coming of foreign ships to the ports of Canton and Ch'uan-chou in which the sea-trade was centered, and in view of the high market value of the goods of the second category and of the great and growing demand for them, 420 it made their sale in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Notes On the Relations and Trade of China With the Eastern Archipelago and the Coast of the Indian Ocean During the Fourteenth Century

Rockhill, W.W.
T'oung Pao , Volume 15 (1): 419 – Jan 1, 1914
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© 1914 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0082-5433
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10.1163/156853214X00249
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NOTES ON THE RELATIONS AND TRADE OF CHINA WITH THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO AND THE COAST OF THE INDIAN OCEAN DURING THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY PART I BY W. W. ROCKHILL. I. ' ' The trade of China with the countries of southern Asia and the islands of the Eastern Archipelago reached its greatest extension during the southern Sung dynasty, in the llth and 12th centuries. The imports into China in this trade consisted of two distinct . categories of goods, the one manufactured textile fabrics, (mostly of cotton), spices and drugs, and the other, and by far the most valuable intrinsically, jewels and semi-precious substances, such as ivory, rhinoceros horn, ebony, amber, coral and the like, and various . aromatic products and perfumes, used either in the preparation of incense or for perfuming the body. During the earlier part of the Sung dynasty the Government used its best efforts to encourage the coming of foreign ships to the ports of Canton and Ch'uan-chou in which the sea-trade was centered, and in view of the high market value of the goods of the second category and of the great and growing demand for them, 420 it made their sale in

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Published: Jan 1, 1914

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