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Military Technology Transfers from Ming China and the Emergence of Northern Mainland Southeast Asia (c. 1390–1527)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2003

Sun Laichen
Sun Laichen
Affiliation:
The Asia Research Institute, National University Singapore. lsun@fullerton.edu
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During the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, Chinese gunpowder technology spread to the whole of Southeast Asia via both the overland and maritime routes, long before the arrival of European firearms. The impact of Chinese firearms on northern mainland Southeast Asia in terms of warfare and territorial expansion was profound.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , October 2003 , pp. 495 - 517
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2003 The National University of Singapore