I.15TH-CENTURY SOUTHEAST ASIA AND MING CHINA---OVERVIEWS -- 1.Southeast Asia in the 15th Century / Geoff Wade -- 2.Assessing the Ming Role in China's Southern Expansion / Sun Laichen -- II.DAI VIET AND THE MING -- 3.The Ming Factor and the Emergence of the Viet in the 15th Century / Li Tana -- 4.Paperwork: The Rise of the New Literati and Ministerial Power and the Effort toward Legibility in Dai Viet / John K. Whitmore -- 5.Nation and Geo-Body in Early Modern Vietnam: A Preliminary Study through Sources of Geomancy / Momoki Shiro -- 6.Contextualising the Book-Burning Episode during the Ming Invasion and Occupation of Vietnam / Alexander -- III.TAI AND KHMER POLITIES AND THE MING -- 7.Shan Gems, Chinese Silver and the Rise of Shan Principalities in Northern Burma, c. 1450-1527 / Sun Laichen -- 8.The Northern Tai Polity of Lan Na (Ba-bai Da-dian) in the 14th and 15th Centuries: The Ming Factor / Volker Grabowsky --
Contents note continued: 9.Agricultural Technology and the Consolidation of Tay Polities in Northern Continental Southeast Asia during the 15th Century / Christian Daniels -- 10.Cambodia and Its Neighbours in the 15th Century / Michael Vickery -- IV.MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE MING -- 11.Hybrid Identities in the 15th-century Staits / Anthony Reid -- 12.New Ships for New Networks: Trends in Shipbuilding in the South China Sea in 15th and 16th Centuries / Pierre-Yves Manguin -- 13.A Ming Gap? Data from Southeast Asian Shipwreck Cargoes / Roxanna M. Brown -- 14.Before and After Zheng He: Comparing Some Southeast Asian Archaeological Sites of the 14th and 15th Centuries / John N. Miksic.