The trade in lakawood products between South China and the Malay world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries AD

This article examines the development in the trade of Zakawood as an exampl e of the passage of a commodity from its initial introduction to being high ly prized by its recipient market from the Song to early Ming period, and a ttempts to understand the interactive dynamics of the maritime trade betwee n China and the Malay world at a micro level during the classical period of the Malay world's history.