Practice: Material and Ideational Influences(Stanford University Press,
Stanford, 1998); and William T. Tow, Asia Pacific Security Relations:
Seeking Convergent Security(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
2001).
On China’s relations with Vietnam, the pioneering study is
King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938–1954(Princeton University
Press, Princeton, NJ, 1969). More recent are William J. Duiker, China
and Vietnam: The Roots of Conflict(University of California Press,
Berkeley, 1986); Robert S. Ross, The Indochina Tangle: China’s Vietnam
Policy 1975–1979 (Columbia University Press, New York, 1988);
Anne Gilks, The Breakdown of the Sino–Vietnamese Alliance,
1970–1979(University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992); Carlyle A.
Thayer and Ramses Amer, eds, Vietnamese Foreign Policy in Transition
(St Martin’s Press, New York, 1999); Ang Cheng Guan, Vietnamese
Communists’ Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict,
1956–1962(McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 1997); Stephen J. Morris, Why
Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War
(Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1999); and Zhai Qiang,
China and the Vietnam Wars: 1950–1975(University of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Hill, 2000).
China’s relations with Cambodia are covered in Chang Pao-Min,
Kampuchea between China and Vietnam(Singapore University Press,
Singapore, 1985); and with Laos in Lee Chae-Jin, Communist China’s
Policy Towards Laos: A Case Study 1954–67(University of Kansas
Press, Lawrence, 1970).
For relations between Burma and China, see Ralph Pettman,
China in Burma’s Foreign Policy(Australian National University Press,
Canberra, 1973); Daw Than Han, Common Vision: Burma’s Regional
Outlook(Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 1988); and
between Thailand and China, Anuson Chinvanno, Thailand’s Policies
towards China, 1949–54(Macmillan, London, 1992); and Sukhumb-
hand Paribatra, From Enmity to Alignment: Thailand’s Evolving Relations
with China(Chulalongkorn University Press, Bangkok, 1987).
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