A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
interests to maintain good relations with China. For Dai Viet, the Southern Song still represented the threatening proximity of ...
Early relations trade was carried in Chinese vessels. Just as communities of foreign merchants congregated in Chinese ports, so ...
4 Mongol expansionism Chinese attention during the Southern Song was always directed north, and with good reason. The Song polic ...
led but comprised mainly Chinese troops. Elements of the Song navy captured by the invading Mongols formed the core of the war f ...
established regular access routes from China, through Yunnan, and down into Burma. This was the so-called southern silk route, n ...
to trace population movements because the names assigned to tribal groups change. Broadly speaking, however, population movement ...
upper Burma where its victory over, and destruction of, the Pyu kingdom only opened the way for the Burmans to become the domi- ...
and tended, as a result, to become more complacent and inward- looking. In short, Dali was much less prepared than was Vietnam t ...
(^) (^) (^) (^) (^) (^) (^) (^) (^) Mongol invasions of Southeast Asia, late thirteenth century CE. ...
Mongol expansionism The projection of Mongol power The Mongols had conquered Yunnan as part of a grand strategy to out- flank th ...
again in 1281, both times with disastrous results, thanks to the ‘divine wind’ (kamikaze) that sank so many Mongol ships. The ne ...
the Burmese chronicles of ‘the king who fled the Chinese’. Chinese and Burmese accounts differ on the outcome of the invasion. T ...
was Cham resistance that the Mongols decided to send a relieving force overland through Vietnam. But again the Vietnamese object ...
mission to the Yuan court in 1280. Others followed until 1299, though Lopburi seems to have retained its independence into the 1 ...
Prince Vijaya established a new dynasty and a new capital at Majapahit, the name by which this Hindu kingdom became known. Thus, ...
(reigned 1177–1215?), and the disunity of the Mon, than by such tenuous linkages. A power vacuum existed in central mainland Sou ...
Siamese embassy was followed by several more as the value of Sino–Siamese trade became evident. One mission may even have been l ...
In turning their attention to Southeast Asia, the Mongols enjoyed a strategic advantage not available to most Chinese dynasties: ...
This response has more to do with mandalarelations and the workings of karma than with a failure of nerve or diplomacy. The king ...
land-based people, the Mongols had taken to the sea with remarkable alacrity, but they had done so with insufficient preparation ...
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