Table of Contents

Preliminary pages with Introduction; 1. The Opening of Relations between China and Malacca 1403-05 by Wang Gungwu; 2. The First Three Rulers of Malacca by Wang Gungwu; 3. Did Zheng He Set Out to Colonize Southeast Asia? by Tan Ta Sen; 4. Chinese Element in the Islamization of Southeast Asia: A Study of the Story of Njai Gede Pinatih, the Great Lady of Gresik by Tan Yeok Seong; 5. Zheng He, Semarang and the Islamization of Java: Between History and Legend by Leo Suryadinata; 6. A Celebration of Diversity: Zheng He and the Origin of the Pre-Colonial Coastal Urban Pattern in Southeast Asia by Johannes Widodo; 7. Notes Relating to Admiral Cheng Hos Expeditions by Hsu Yun-Ts; 8. Did Admiral Cheng Ho Visit the Philippines? by Hsu Yun-Ts; 9. Longyamen is Singapore: The Final Proof? by Chung Chee Kit.