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=== Ma-i ===
{{Main|Ma-i}}
[[Image:Manila Mint Museum, PI Piloncitos.jpg|left|thumb|250px|A collection of gold [[Piloncitos]] stamped with the Baybayin character for "Ma" possibly representing the nation of Ma-i.]]

Arab chronicler Al Ya'akubi, had written that in the 800s, the kingdoms of Muja (Then Pagan/Hindu Brunei) and Mayd (Ma-i) militarily competed with the Chinese Empire.<ref name="Nicholl" /> Volume 186 of the [[History of Song (Yuan dynasty)|official history of the Song dynasty]] describes the polity of [[Ma-i]] ({{circa|before 971 – after 1339}}). Song dynasty traders visited Ma-i annually, and their accounts described Ma-i's geography, trade products, and the trade behaviors of its rulers.<ref name="KansaiICIS">{{cite journal |last1=Zhenping |first1=Wang |title=Reading Song-Ming Records on the Pre-colonial History of the Philippines |journal=Journal of East Asian Cultural Interaction Studies |year=2008 |volume=1 |pages=249–260 |hdl=10112/3180 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Chinese merchants noted that Ma-i's citizens were honest and trustworthy.{{sfn|Scott|1984|p=67}} Because the descriptions of Mai's location in these accounts are unclear, there is dispute about Mai's location, with some scholars believing it was located in [[Bay, Laguna]],<ref name=":11" /> and others believing it was on the island of [[Mindoro]].{{sfn|Scott|1984|p={{page needed|date=August 2018}}}} The Buddhist polity traded with [[Ryukyu]] and Japan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seapots.com/home/index.php/production-centers-pottery-groups/philippines |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716025132/http://www.seapots.com/home/index.php/production-centers-pottery-groups/philippines |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |title=South East Asia Pottery – Philippines |publisher=Seapots.com |access-date=October 27, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Chao Jukua]], a customs inspector in [[Fujian Province, Republic of China|Fukien]] province, China wrote the ''[[Zhu fan zhi|Zhufan Zhi]]'' ("Description of the Barbarous Peoples").<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E5D91139E633A2575AC2A9649D946396D6CF Old Chinese Book Tells of the World 800 Years Ago] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210949/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E5D91139E633A2575AC2A9649D946396D6CF |date=March 3, 2016 }}; Chau-Ju-Kua's Chronicles of the Twelfth Century, Now First Translated, Give a "Description of Barbarous Peoples" Picked Up by This Noted Inspector of Foreign Trade and Descendant of Emperors.</ref> William Henry Scott said, that unlike other Philippine kingdoms or polities which needed backing from the Chinese Imperial Court to attract commerce, the Polity of Ma-i was powerful enough to have no need to send tributes to the Chinese throne.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/FilipinosInChinaBefore1500 FILIPINOS IN CHINA BEFORE 1500] By William Henry Scott Page 2</ref>