- 1 Introduction Abbreviations x
- 2 The Chinese view of the world
- The Confucian worldview
- The Chinese way of war
- Empire and world order: Qin and Han
- 3 Early relations
- Early Southeast Asia
- Expansion of contacts: trade and religion
- The special case of Vietnam
- Southeast Asia and the Song
- Conclusion
- 4 Mongol expansionism
- Mongol conquests
- The projection of Mongol power
- Implications for Southeast Asia
- Changing worldviews
- Conclusion
- 5 Sea power, tribute and trade
- The tributary system
- Ming expansionism
- The Ming voyages
- Later Ming–Southeast Asia relations
- Conclusion
- 6 Enter the Europeans
- Tribute and trade
- China, Southeast Asia, the Portuguese, and the Dutch
- The Qing
- Challenges to the Chinese world order
- The late Qing and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia vi
- Conclusion
- 7 The changing world order
- Nationalism and politics among the overseas Chinese
- Sino–Thai relations
- The Second World War and its aftermath
- Conclusion
- 8 Communism and the Cold War
- The Chinese Marxist–Leninist worldview
- Early PRC–Southeast Asia relations
- The First Indochina War
- The ‘Bandung spirit’
- Complications and setbacks
- The Second Indochina War
- Developing bilateral relations regimes
- 9 Fresh beginnings
- Shifting relations in continental Southeast Asia
- The Cambodian problem
- The economic imperative
- From ASEAN six to ASEAN ten
- The South China Sea
- Patterns of interaction
- 10 Future directions
- China: strategic goals and international relations culture
- Three scenarios
- China and ASEAN
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Suggested reading
- Index
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