Sino-Siamese Dual-script Trade In The Asian Trade Net From 16 Century To The Middle Of 19 Century

In the beginning of 16 century, when the western pioneers arrived, the system of tributary trade had been survived in the Orient, which was center on China and connected with every country and region in Asia. Then the western merchants not only participated in the system of Asian tributary trade, but also developed free trade by armed force and made Asia in the world trade net. So in Asia, the tributary trade developed and the private trade was more and more prosperous and flourishing, which was the most obvious characteristic of the Asian trade net from 16 century to the middle of 19 century. As one important part of the Asian trade net, the main feature of Sino-Siamese dual-script trade was that the tributary trade concurred with the civil trade from beginning to end. Relatively, Annam chiefly carried on the tributary trade with China and Japan principally was engaged in the private trade after 1523. The tributary trade concurring with the free trade, junks as means of transform, the Chinese merchants and the western merchants equaling each other even slightly superior, the Sino-Siamese dual-script trade was the miniature of the modern Asian trade.