Preface
List of maps and diagrams
Introduction 'Down to the Golden Chersonese...'

Part I: China and the Malay Peninsula
Chapter I The Portage of the South Seas
        II Rumour and Report in the Third Century A.D.
        III The Red-Earth Land
        IV Towards the Holy Land
        V 'The Barbarians of the Isles'
        VI The Upper Coast
        VII The Legacy of the Three-Jewal Eunuch
Appendix 1 Notes on the Chinese texts mentioned above
        2 Bibliography of the Embassy of K'ang-T'ai and Chu-Ying
        3 Chin-lin or the Frontier of Gold
        4 Tribute missions from the Malay Peninsula to the Chinese court to the end of the Chen-la period
        5 John Crawfurd's description of the ruins of ancient Singapore

Part II: The Malay Peninsula as known to the West 
Chapter IX 'As the ver rising of the Sun'
        X The Golden Khersonese
Appendix 1 Notes on Ptolemic Scholarship
        2 The Panarikan
        3 Early Ptolemic interpretations

Part III: The Indians in Malaya
Chapter XI Suvarnadvipa
        XII Buddhist and Brahman in Malaya
        XIII The Colas in Malaya
Appendix Notes on Indian texts mentioned above and in Chapter XVIII

Part IV: The Arabs in Malaya
Introduction
Chapter XIV 'The Wonders of India'
        XV The Master Navigators: 1450-1550
Appendix Notes on Arabic texts mentioned above

Part V: Three Forgotten Kingdoms
Chapter XVI Langkasuka
        XVII Takola emporion
        XVIII 'The seat of all felicities'

Part VI: The Isthmian Age
Chapter XIX The Isthmian Age

Part VII: 'A City that was made for Merchandise'
Chapter XX A city that was made for merchandise
Appendix Two Fifteenth-century descriptions of Malacca

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

List of maps and diagrams