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The Golden Khersonese: studies in the historical geography of the Malay Penninsula before A. D. 1500

Wheatley, Paul.

Year: 1961.

Publisher: University of Malaya Press.

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Frontmatter

PREFACE

LIST OF MAPS AND DIAGRAMS

INTRODUCTION 'Down to the Golden Chersonese...'

PART I: CHINA AND THE MALAY PENINSULA

INTRODUCTION

Chapter I The Portage of the South Seas

Chapter II Rumour and Report in the Third Century A.D.

Chapter III The Red-Earth Land

Chapter IV Towards the Holy Land

Chapter V 'The Barbarians of the Sea'

Chapter VI The Upper Coast

Chapter VII 'The Barbarians of the Isles'

Chapter VIII The Legacy of the Three-Jewel Eunuch

Appendix 1 Notes on the Chinese texts mentioned above

Appendix 2 Bibliography of the Embassy of K'ang-T'ai and Chu-Ying

Appendix 3 Chin-lin or The Frontier of Gold

Appendix 4 Tribute missions from the Malay Peninsula to the Chinese court to the end of the Chen-la period

Appendix 5 John Crawford's description of the ruins of ancient Singapore

PART II: THE MALAY PENINSULA AS KNOWN TO THE WEST

Chapter IX 'At the very rising of the sun'

Chapter X The Golden Khersonese

Appendix 1 Notes on Ptolemaic scholarship

Appendix 2 The Panarikan

Appendix 3 Early Ptolemaic interpretations

PART III: THE INDIANS IN MALAYA

Chapter XI Suvarnadvipa

Chapter XII Buddhist and Brahman in Malaya

Chapter XIII The Colas in Malaya

Appendix Notes on Indian texts mentioned above and in Chapter XVIII

PART IV: THE ARABS IN MALAYA

Introduction

Chapter XIV 'The Wonders of India'

Chapter XV The Master Navigators: 1450-1550

Appendix Notes on Arabic texts mentioned above

PART V: THREE FORGOTTEN KINGDOMS

Chapter XVI Langkasuka

Chapter XVII Takola emporion

Chapter XVIII 'The seat of all felicities'

PART VI: THE ISTHMIAN AGE

Chapter XIX The Isthmian Age

PART VII: 'A CITY THAT WAS MADE FOR MERCHANDISE'

Chapter XX A city that was made for merchandise

Appendix Two fifteenth-century descriptions of Malacca

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Title:

The Golden Khersonese : studies in the historical geography of the Malay Penninsula before A. D. 1500 by Paul Wheatley.

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Wheatley, Paul

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The Golden Khersonese : studies in the historical geography of the Malay Penninsula before A. D. 1500 by Paul Wheatley.
Wheatley, Paul
Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1961.

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