The Southeast Asia Connection by Sing C. Chew

Author:Sing C. Chew [Chew, Sing C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Archaeology, Anthropology, General
ISBN: 9781785337895
Google: SV83DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2018-03-28T04:23:04+00:00

Southeast Asia’s Trade with the Eastern Part

of the First Eurasian World Economy

As part of the Eurasian world system, Southeast Asia traded not only with the core urbanized centers in the western portion of the Eurasian world economy; its proximity to China, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan through its land and sea connections meant that its maritime trade networks with the eastern portion of the system were firmly connected by the end of the prehistoric era. In East Asia, intraregional trade routes were established by the fifth century BC (Higham 2002; Hung and Bellwood 2010; Sarabia 2004). They were primarily centered on products such as silk and ceramic wares. Within East Asia, Chinese goods were exchanged by land with the Korean peninsula and via shipping to the Japanese islands. Imamura (1996) and Sarabia (2004) have traced the exchange between China and Japan in the archaeological bronze finds unearthed in Japan that had northern Chinese origins. One can also assume that the products of Southeast Asia that were shipped to China for consumption would have found their way to Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. For example, Taiwanese nephrite has been found in southern Thailand, indicating the exchange of raw materials between Southeast Asia and East Asia (Hung and Bellwood 2010).

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