Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853 Angkor Wat and the place of Brahmanism

and the place of Brahmanism in early Buddhist thought as expressed through the jatakas

and politics in the face of this injurious history

often hidden deep within the art itself

with Than Tun

Boonlua became one of the first Thai women to earn a university degree

Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853 Angkor Wat and the place of BrahmanismLong before East Asia was fixed in the trade routes of Western economic powers, the region supported a complex economic system intertwined with and regulated by elaborate political and social structures. For Siam, the most significant of these was the Chinese tributary system. Tribute and Profit illuminates the conduct and maintenance of maritime trade under the auspices of Siams tributary relationship with imperial China. This bilateral partnership