Suma Oriental, by Tomé Pires, edited by Rui Manuel Loureiro. Lisbon: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau and Fundação Jorge Álvares; Macau: Fundação Macau, 2017, 335 pages, bibl., index. ISBN 978-972-8586-52-2.
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Roderich Ptak, « Suma Oriental, by Tomé Pires, edited by Rui Manuel Loureiro. Lisbon: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau and Fundação Jorge Álvares; Macau: Fundação Macau, 2017, 335 pages, bibl., index. ISBN 978-972-8586-52-2. », Archipel, ID : 10.4000/archipel.858
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Historians of maritime Asia, and especially of Southeast Asia, are most familiar with the Suma Oriental by Tomé Pires (c. 1470 – c. 1527). Pires’ book is a key source for our understanding of how commercial exchange within the large space that extends from Egypt to the coasts of China was functioning during the late medieval period and at the time when the Portuguese took hold of such coastal locations as Goa and Melaka. Besides recording trade goods and the flow of commodities, Pires also te...