Srivijaya, la Chine et les marchands chinois (Xe-XIIe s.). Quelques réflexions sur la société de l'empire sumatranais

Claudine Salmon During the last decades several studies that were aimed at analysing the relations between Srivijaya and China, and more especially the tributary missions, have appeared. More recently the emphasis has been placed on the images of Srivijaya in the Chinese sources of the 13th and 14th centuries. In this paper we intend to reappraise the Srivijayan tributary missions to China, as reflected in the Chinese sources of the time. In so...