A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

Studies of relations between China and Indonesia include
Sheldon W. Simon, The Broken Triangle: Peking, Djakarta and the PKI
(Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1969); David Mozingo, Chinese
Policy toward Indonesia, 1949–1967(Cornell University Press, Ithaca,
NY, 1976); and Rizal Sukma, Indonesia and China: The Politics of a
Troubled Relationship(Routledge, London, 1999). There is no book-
length study of Sino–Malaysian relations, except for R. K. Jain’s
collection of documents, China and Malaysia 1949–1983(Sangam,
London, 1987). Sino–Philippine relations are examined in Theresa C.
Cariño and Bernardita R. Churchill, eds, Perspectives on Philippine
Policy Towards China (Philippine Association for Chinese Studies,
Manila, 1993).
On the South China Sea, the best recent studies are Mark J.
Valencia, China and the South China Sea Disputes: Conflicting Claims and
Potential Solutions in the South China SeaAdelphi Paper No. 298
(Oxford University Press, London, 1995); Bob Catley and Makmur
Keliat, Spratlys: The Dispute in the South China Sea(Ashgate, Alder-
shot, 1997); and Greg Austin, China’s Ocean Frontier: International
Law, Military Force and National Development (Allen & Unwin,
Sydney, NSW, 1998).