A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
close to the ancestral Vietnamese. Other loyalists joined him, and in 1418 Le Loi launched his campaign to drive out the Chinese ...
China’s relations with other kingdoms in Southeast Asia were much more friendly. Numerous embassies were exchanged following the ...
China’s suzerainty over Melaka. The example of Ho Quy Ly was explicitly cited, and the warning was enough to thwart Siamese atte ...
arbitrator remained and was resorted to on occasions, just as small powers might call upon the United Nations, with similarly nu ...
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia more powerful Southeast Asian kingdoms must have been aware of this, but rejected al ...
6 Enter the Europeans From the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries has been called the ‘age of commerce’ in Southeast ...
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia More importantly for this study, throughout the period from the heyday of the Ming t ...
as the Tang had done, the Ming tried to circumscribe it. After the expeditions of Zheng He, the dynasty no longer looked upon th ...
The tribute trade from Southeast Asia entered China through Canton (Guangzhou), while embassies from the Ryukyus arrived at Quan ...
civilisation, and by so doing were failing to fulfil their duty to the emperor. At no time were these communities used as a mean ...
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Asian products, most importantly spices. The Portuguese were not slow to realise that enticing profits were to be made from trad ...
intervention. Aggression by one tributary against another was frowned upon, for that destroyed the peace and harmony the Chinese ...
‘annexed’ a number of small Tai principalities formerly tributary to China failed to provoke a response. Succession disputes wer ...
As in the case of the Portuguese, early Dutch contacts with China moved rapidly from mutual incomprehension, to frustration, to ...
China, almost all of it from the Americas. As the price for silver in China was substantially higher than in Europe, vast amount ...
Burma. Following the defeat in 1659 of the last Ming armies, the young Ming pretender and a few hundred retainers sought asylum ...
the Qing was not dispatched until 1750, in a hopeless bid for Chinese support to prevent the collapse of the Toungu dynasty. The ...
The catalogue of Qing conquests in Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet is enough to establish that, like several earlier dynasties (Tan ...
tributary mission. All foreign communications had to be forwarded to the appropriate authorities in Beijing.^6 Tribute, as oppos ...
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