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Chinese Bird Imports from Maritime Southeast Asia, c. 1000-1500
Introduction
Trade between different destinations in and around the East and South China Seas, from Kyushu and Fujian down to the Malayan Peninsula and Java, has often been explained in terms of complex networks and commodity exchanges, or rather ‘ commodity chains’, two famous examples being the flow of silk and silver. Until today many historians contend that these two products, along with a set of less important ‘ things’, serve as key elements for a better understanding of maritime Asia during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Chinese and Japanese accounts also refer to silk and silver, but instead of focusing on and assigning a similar weight to these two, they seem to be more interested in various other commodities. When trans-Pacific trade had not yet come into existence, the circulation of silver across the Asian seas was still minimal. Seen through the lookingglass of Song, Yuan and early Ming authors, sappanwood and precious timber, tin and iron, pepper and several other spices, sulphur, pearls and gems, as well as certain animals and animal products, were the leading items of trade before the mid-sixteenth century, along with manufactured products such as textiles
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Gabriel Discusses Weather Change reside in China
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