The Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia

INTRODUCTION A Necessary Decentring 1. From a European-Centric To An Asian-Centric Historical Research 2. The Emergence of Permanent Chinese Communities 3. The Potential Contribution of the Archives and the Analysis Strategy I METHODOLOGY AND CONTEXTS 1. Sources Relating to the Activity of Chinese Networks 2. The Evolution of two Exchange Systems: West/East and North/South II CONTROLLING THE MAIN TOOLS OF COMMERCE 3. A Hierarchical Commercial Network: Products, Stages, and Routes 4. The Development of Overseas Chinese Communities 5. Technologies and Savoir-Faire III TRADE FLOWS 6. Chinese Commerce in Batavia 7. The Chinese in the Insulindian Trade (Excluding Batavia) 8. Peninsula/China Sea/Manila Links IV FINANCIAL FLOWS 9. Currencies and Cash 10. Deferred Payments 11. Prices, Margins and Profits V THE CHINESE IN BATAVIA 12. Key Economic Players 13. A Self-Managing Community 14. Positive Relations with the Dutch Government CONCLUSION Successive Commercial Tensions APPENDIXES 1. Weights and Measures 2. Lexicon of Product Names Most Frequently Mentioned in the DRS 3. Principal Types of Insulindian Vessels Mentioned in the Dagh Register 4. Inventory of Goods Traded in Insulindia 5. Selected Extracts from Dutch Sources 6. Thematic Bibliography 7. Index 8. Table of Author's Maps and Other Figures 9. Table of Graphs 10. Table of Tables 11. Table of Contents