The Golden Khersonese: studies in the historical geography of the Malay Peninsula before AD 1500

The Golden Khersonese: studies in the historical geography of the Malay Peninsula before AD 1500

Penulis: Paul Wheatley
Penerbit: Greenwood Press Publishers, 1973

Table of Contents

• 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