EFFECT OF MALAY-CHINA TRADE RELATIONS DRINGTHE MALACCA SULTANATE ON THE EMERGENCE OF CHINESE PERANAKAN COMMUNITY

HISTORY ARRIVAL OF CHINESE IN MALACCA

Since the earlier settlement of the Chinese

As an entrepot trade center and a place of exchange of bussiness items from a various countries

During British colonial era

Post-independence Malaya

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES IN MALACCA

Able to provide modern infrastructure facilities

Able to become a central collection and marketing place for the spice states

Can act as receiver of buyer of the goods

Malacca geographical position is very strategic for act as international trade route

Safe from the threat of the Southwest Monsoon and also Northwest Monsoon and very protected zone

RELATIONS ABOUT CHINA AND MALACCA

Diplomatic relaations between Chinaand Malacca had been sealed

Malacca had seek for protections from Ming Dynasty to oercome threats from Ayudha

Intermarriage between Chinese traders with local Malay community

Ming government changed their trade policy and eliminated the closed-door policy

EFFECT OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST CHINESE PERANAKAN COMMUNITY FORMATIONIN MALACCA

Trade relation become an important role in establishing and creating a new ethnics called Chinese Peranakan

Intermarriage between early Chinese migrants with local women because in Malacca lack of Chinese women

Chinese community adapt themself with the local Malay community from many dimension of Malay adaptation