A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

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CHINA A SHORT HISTORY OF AND SOUTHEAST ASIA ...

Short History of Asia Series Series Editor: Milton Osborne Milton Osborne has had an association with the Asian region for over ...

CHINA A SHORT HISTORY OF AND SOUTHEAST ASIA: TRIBUTE, TRADE AND INFLUENCE By Martin Stuart-Fox ...

First published in 2003 Copyright © Martin Stuart-Fox 2003 Calligraphy by Anita Chang Maps by Robert Cribb All rights reserved. ...

v Contents Preface and acknowledgments vii ...

1 Introduction Abbreviations x 2 The Chinese view of the world The Confucian worldview The Chinese way of war Empire and world ...

vii Preface and acknowledgments It has taken almost two centuries, but China is once again becoming a great power—at a time when ...

A Short History of China and Southeast Asia viii Western scholars may take history less seriously (and international relations a ...

Preface and acknowledgments ix relations with the Middle Kingdom. In fact, I would argue that this is already evident: in the ‘A ...

Abbreviations AFPFL Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League APEC Asia–Pacific Economic Co-operation ARF ASEAN Regional Forum ASEAN ...

1 INTRODUCTION This book sketches in broad outline the history of 2000 years of contact between the peoples and governments of C ...

former influence and status. The United States is the only power outside Asia that still plays a significant role in shaping reg ...

Vietnam and Laos after 1975, turned to the Soviet Union. And some, like Indonesia after 1965, eschewed all contact with the PRC. ...

increasingly to reassert themselves in shaping relations between China and the countries of Southeast Asia. The multilateral dim ...

The principal way in which cultural factors influence the way states and nations relate to one another derives from how their fo ...

states will often not require shared commitments to be spelled out; they will be taken for granted—which may cause some amazemen ...

of Southeast Asia regained their independence, did the United Nations—as a forum of nominally equal sovereign states—come to emb ...

they also necessarily rested on a degree of compatibility of worldviews and shared historical experience, factors which still im ...

2 The Chinese view of the world The birthplace of Chinese civilisation was on the North China Plain, watered by the Yellow River ...