A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

example, Stephen Krasner, ed., International Regimes, Cornell Uni-

versity Press, Ithaca, NY, 1983; Volker Ritter, ed., Regime Theory

and International Relations, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993; Marc A.

Levy, Oran R. Young and Michael Zum, ‘The study of international

regimes’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 1, 1995,

pp. 267–330.

Chapter 2 The Chinese view of the world

1. The translation is from Simon Leys, The Analects of Confucius,
   W. W. Norton and Co., New York, 1997, p. 60.


2. On Confucian qualities, see David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames,
   Thinking Through Confucius, State University Press of New York,
   New York, 1987.


3. Ralph Sawyer, The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, West-
   view, Boulder, Colo., 1993.


4. The best study is Alastair Johnston’s penetrating analysis of
   Chinese strategic culture during the Ming dynasty. Alastair Iain
   Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in
   Chinese History, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995.


5. Wang Gungwu, ‘Early Ming relations with Southeast Asia: a back-
   ground essay’ in The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign
   Relations, ed. John King Fairbank, Harvard University Press, Cam-
   bridge, Mass., 1968, p. 43.


6. Aihe Wang, Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China, Cam-
   bridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, especially chapter 5.


7. YüYing-Shih, ‘Han foreign relations’ in The Cambridge History
   of China, eds Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank, vol. 1,
   pp. 383–405.


8. ibid, pp. 379–80. See also Richard J. Smith, Chinese Maps: Images
   of ‘All Under Heaven’, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1996,
   pp. 23–4.

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