South, 175, 181, 182, 195, 198
See alsoHanoi; Saigon
Vietnam League for Independence
(Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh),
137
Vietnam Liberation League (Dong Minh
Hoi), 137, 146
Vietnam War. SeeIndochina wars,
Second
Vietnam Workers’ Party (Lao Dong), 177
Vietnamese Communist Party, 207
Vietnamese Nationalist Party
(VNQDD), 136
Vijaya, Prince of Singhasari, 63, 64
‘virtue’ (de), 17, 21, 36, 53, 71, 75, 78,
79, 87, 96, 116, 155, 156
Vo Nguyen Giap, 137, 166
Volksraad, 134
voluntarism, Maoist, 176, 222
war, Chinese way of, 14–16
warring states, 11, 14, 15
Washington, 142, 150, 165, 181, 184,
193, 201, 230, 232, 233, 234, 236
West Irian, 161, 178
world order, 2, 7, 10, 17–22, 33, 34, 45,
50, 67, 68, 71, 187, 222, 230, 236,
244
Chinese, 2, 10, 17–22, 33, 50, 67, 68,
71, 72, 73, 78, 79, 80, 86–7, 91, 94,
96, 101, 102, 112, 114, 115, 116, 120,
121, 126, 128, 162, 190, 235, 236
Western, 2, 121, 128–9, 155, 222
World War, Second, 6, 142–8, 149, 188
worldview, 5, 6, 8, 39, 69–71, 112, 128,
236, 239
Chinese, 9–22, 24, 49, 53, 96, 108
Confucian, 11–14
Marxist–Leninist, 151–8, 187
Southeast Asian
Hindu/Buddhist, 29–36, 50, 69
Islamic, 70–1
Vietnamese, 45–6
writing, importance of, 9, 24, 29
Wu, king, 12
Xetthathirat, king of Lan Xang, 102
Xiamen, 118
Xinjiang, 38, 57, 108, 225, 226
Xiongnu, 19–20
Xishuangbanna, 140. See alsoSipsong
Phan Na
Xuande, emperor of China, 85, 90
Xun-zi, 15
Yangze River, 24
Yellow River, 9
yin and yang, 17
Yongle, emperor of China, 76, 80–2, 84,
85, 86, 88–91, 93, 96
Yuan dynasty, 49, 53, 60–6, 68, 69, 73,
75, 78, 79, 108. See alsoMongols
Yue, 20, 23, 24, 25, 55
Yunnan, 21, 40, 50, 52–5, 57, 59, 60, 62,
64, 66, 71, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 92,
102, 113, 118, 126, 133, 148, 160,
169, 204, 213, 226
Zheng Chenggong, 107
Zheng He, admiral, 84–8, 91, 92, 95, 96, 97
Zhenla, 30, 41
Zhou Daguan, 62
Zhou, Duke of, 12
Zhou dynasty, 10, 11, 12, 16, 23, 73
Zhou Enlai, 151, 154, 168, 171, 172, 173,
179, 198, 213
Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality
(ZOPFAN), 196A Short History of China and Southeast Asia