Javanese Markets and the Asian Sea Trade Boom of the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries A.D.

Author: Wisseman Christie, Jan

Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Volume 41, Number 3, 1998 , pp. 344-381(38)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Between the early tenth and the mid-thirteenth centuries, a boom occurred in the trade linking the seas of maritime Southeast Asia to the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. The impact that this growth in trade had upon the Javanese domestic economy was profound. The expansion of the Chinese market, in particular, for the produce of Java and its archipelago trading network led to changes in Javanese agricultural practices, patterns of domestic marketing and regional trade, and the monetary and tax system. The resulting increase in wealth stimulated a Javanese consumption boom, and competition from commodities imported from China and India provoked innovations in domestic production.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568520981436264

Affiliations: 1: Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull

Publication date: 1998-01-01