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The Golden Khersonese: studies in the historical geography of the Malay Penninsula before A. D. 1500
Paul Wheatley
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Frontmatter
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PREFACE (page v)
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LIST OF MAPS AND DIAGRAMS (page xiv)
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INTRODUCTION 'Down to the Golden Chersonese...' (page xvii)
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PART I: CHINA AND THE MALAY PENINSULA
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INTRODUCTION (page 1)
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Chapter I The Portage of the South Seas (page 8)
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Chapter II Rumour and Report in the Third Century A.D. (page 14)
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Chapter III The Red-Earth Land (page 26)
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Chapter IV Towards the Holy Land (page 37)
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Chapter V 'The Barbarians of the Sea' (page 46)
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Chapter VI The Upper Coast (page 61)
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Chapter VII 'The Barbarians of the Isles' (page 75)
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Chapter VIII The Legacy of the Three-Jewel Eunuch (page 88)
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Appendix 1 Notes on the Chinese texts mentioned above (page 104)
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Appendix 2 Bibliography of the Embassy of K'ang-T'ai and Chu-Ying (page 114)
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Appendix 3 Chin-lin or The Frontier of Gold (page 116)
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Appendix 4 Tribute missions from the Malay Peninsula to the Chinese court to the end of the Chen-la period (page 118)
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Appendix 5 John Crawford's description of the ruins of ancient Singapore (page 120)
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PART II: THE MALAY PENINSULA AS KNOWN TO THE WEST
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Chapter IX 'At the very rising of the sun' (page 123)
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Chapter X The Golden Khersonese (page 138)
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Appendix 1 Notes on Ptolemaic scholarship (page 160)
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Appendix 2 The Panarikan (page 163)
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Appendix 3 Early Ptolemaic interpretations (page 173)
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PART III: THE INDIANS IN MALAYA
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Chapter XI Suvarnadvipa (page 177)
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Chapter XII Buddhist and Brahman in Malaya (page 185)
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Chapter XIII The Colas in Malaya (page 199)
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Appendix Notes on Indian texts mentioned above and in Chapter XVIII (page 204)
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PART IV: THE ARABS IN MALAYA
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Introduction (page 210)
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Chapter XIV 'The Wonders of India' (page 216)
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Chapter XV The Master Navigators: 1450-1550 (page 233)
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Appendix Notes on Arabic texts mentioned above (page 244)
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PART V: THREE FORGOTTEN KINGDOMS
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Chapter XVI Langkasuka (page 252)
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Chapter XVII Takola emporion (page 268)
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Chapter XVIII 'The seat of all felicities' (page 273)
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PART VI: THE ISTHMIAN AGE
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Chapter XIX The Isthmian Age (page 282)
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PART VII: 'A CITY THAT WAS MADE FOR MERCHANDISE'
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Chapter XX A city that was made for merchandise (page 306)
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Appendix Two fifteenth-century descriptions of Malacca (page 321)
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EPILOGUE (page 326)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 329)
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INDEX (page 371)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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PA | 37.1 (Spring 1964): 94 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-851X%28196421%2937%3A1%3C94%3ATGK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 |
JAS | 21.4 (Aug. 1962): 567-568 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28196208%2921%3A4%3C567%3ATGKSIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1 |
GJ | 128.1 (Mar. 1962): 88-89 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398%28196203%29128%3A1%3C88%3ATGKSIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T |
BOAS | 25.1/3 (1962): 638-639 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281962%2925%3A1%2F3%3C638%3ATGKSIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H |
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Published: 1961
Publisher: University of Malaya Press
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