A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and InfluenceAllen & Unwin, 2003 - 278 pages This informative but concise history of China and Southeast Asia is perfect for travelers, students, teachers, and businesspeople. Portable and attractively designed, it includes color illustrations, maps, and a brief history of the region. Explored are relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia; patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and migration; and how these have varied over time. With a focus on modern history, this is a fascinating account of imperial ambition, internal collapse and revival, cultural and commercial endeavors, and war and revolution. Important insight into the complicated history of the fastest-growing region in the world is offered. |
Table des matières
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| 23 | |
Mongol expansionism | 52 |
Sea power tribute and trade | 73 |
Enter the Europeans | 95 |
The changing world order | 128 |
Communism and the Cold War | 150 |
Fresh beginnings | 193 |
Future directions | 224 |
Notes | 246 |
Suggested reading | 258 |
Index | 265 |
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Page 116 - Our dynasty's majestic virtue has penetrated unto every country under Heaven, and Kings of all nations have offered their costly tribute by land and sea. As your Ambassador can see for himself, we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures.
Page 246 - Strategic Culture as Context: The First Generation of Theory Strikes Back," Review of International Studies, 25, 1 (1999), pp.
Page 12 - Let the ruler be a ruler, the subject a subject, the father a father, the son a son.
Page 150 - And that was due entirely to oppression and exploitation by foreign imperialism and domestic reactionary governments. ...Ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up.
Page 252 - James L. Hevia, Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995), pp.
Page x - APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation ARF ASEAN Regional Forum ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
Page 252 - William Skinner, Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1957, p.
Page x - UN United Nations USA United States of America USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...