Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo -- Chinese on the mining frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid -- Cotton, copper, and caravans : trade and the transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch -- The social life of Chinese labor / Adam McKeown -- Opium as a commodity in the Chinese Nanyang trade / Carl A. Trocki -- The lidai baoan and the Ryukyu maritime tributary trade network with China and Southeast Asia, the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries / Takeshi Hamashita -- Cochinchinese coin casting and circulating in eighteenth-century Southeast Asia / Li Tana -- Import of prosperity : luxurious items imported from China to Siam during the Thonburi and early Rattanakosin periods (1767-1854) / Masuda Erika -- A Sino-Indonesian commodity chain : the trade in tortoiseshell in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Heather Sutherland -- From Baoshi to Feicui : Qing-Burmese gem trade, c. 1644-1800 / Sun Laichen -- Junks to java : Chinese shipping to the Nanyang in the second half of the eighteenth century / Leonard Bluss -- Chinese books and printing in the early Spanish Philippines / Lucille Chia -- The end of the "age of commerce"? : Javanese cotton trade industry from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries / Kwee Hui Kian -- The power of culture and its limits : Taiwanese merchants' Asian commodity flows, 1895-1945 / Lin Man-houng -- Rice trade and Chinese rice millers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries : the case of British Malaya / Wu Xiao An -- Tonle sap processed fish: from Khmer subsistence staple to colonial export commodity / Nola Cooke -- Moses' rod: the Bible as a commodity in Southeast Asia and China / Jean DeBernardi -- Market price, labor input, and relation of production in Sarawak's edible birds' nest trade / Bien Chiang -- A Sino-Southeast Asian circuit : ethnohistories of the marine goods trade / Eric Tagliacozzo -- From a Shiji episode to the forbidden jade trade during the socialist regime in Burma / Wen-Chin Chang -- Conflict timber along the China-Burma border : connecting the global timber consumer with violent extraction sites / Kevin Woods.

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