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We cannot think of the Malacca Straits without seeing it, China r*as )'er to bre discor.e as did Raffles, as a strategic link in the sea route from Europe to tran Malavs. We do not kno China. Wolters would have us think back to a time when the Malacca .{ll we knon' is that a Chir Straits did nof, as a matter of course. lead Chinawards, in order that China in 413 A.D on zuci-. we may witness the origin of this stretch of the sea route. which, he lhar b1 then such journevs argued, was initiated by the resourceful sailors of Sumatra. Too much 3 case for southeast Sumatra emphasis on geographical factors does not do justice to the achievement ro Chrna were mounted nrll of these pioneers. rers included. have remarke, the The sea route to China nsing the Straits of Maiacca was a relatively lo south of the Vaiacca late development in history. The earliest routes to China were caravan lirect route to China. It is ; routes originating in the Mediterranean ladds under Roman rule, traver- 'ron through desrrite handrc sing barbarian Central Asia and ending in Han China. The Chinese lrsire to become rhe shippt Therr exploir was greatly prized this overland trade which they viewed as ccming from all the _rrea :l' r long estahlisheo ronre the magical lands beyond the Ural Mountains, and, when the Pcrsians u succed in getting the came to be the carriers of this trade, they too began to enjoy a high southe: illr'rrrf,tire to this anclenl reputation in Chinese eyes. Goods like the aromatics, frankincense and ro :io bounds at this myrrh, were noted in Chinese medical texts with reference to the dawn of tl i':rornotins the pine resins Persians who brought them. an ir: Chinese markets. palming Political strife in China left the Southem Chinese Dynasties, in :oetlier Persian aromatics. S the fifth and sixth centuries, starved of the overland trade which had ;€r_\ r#ere sent along to real tenninus north China. The cities springing up in south China in its in :rom the Chinese coun. this period were port cities, with a newly enriched merchant class. as traditional carriers well as luxury-deprived scholarly elites, and the The development of th precious goods Persians, looked for a way to of rare and to China, the i:.e t'ifth and sixth c€nruries The Persians had adapted themsel- reach these southerns cities by sea. lan]r co:61. in the sam€ per and carriers or shippers. The ves to sea-voyaging, but as merchants not srons from these kingdorns shippers were Indians, and they were accustomed to the voyage across c'ver all the rest. the better to Bengal nothern Malaya, where a cross country trek was the Bay of to :enruries of grou'th formed tl needed to reach the Gulf of Siarn, and then to the Mekong delta at ci the south-east Srintatran k was a coastal route to the Chinese province, Tonkin. Fgr which there :e:. t.iries. To compensat: ior five centuries of the Christian era the Indians had known his some Clrra trade route. Srivilay.a ; a sea * land and sea route. F{owever" the all*ea route still route: - oi \{alacca and redirected thei eluded them. pmissi t'le entrepot. 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