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China and Southeast Asia : historical interactions
\"Spanning over five centuries of history, this book seeks to describe and define the evolution of the China-Southeast Asia nexus and the interactions which have shaped their shared past. Examining the relationships which have proven integral to connecting Northeast and Southeast Asia with other parts of the world, the contributors of the volume provide a thorough context to changing contemporary relations in the region and perhaps one of the most intense re-orderings occurring anywhere in the world today. From maritime trading relations and political interactions to overland Chinese expansion and commerce in Southeast Asia, this book reveals connections across the China-Southeast Asia interface, which often remain hidden. In so doing, it goes beyond existing Area Studies scholarship to present an invaluable new perspective to the field. A major contribution to the study of Asian economic and cultural interactions, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, as well as Southeast Asia more generally\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An Early Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia, 900–1300 CE
One of the most influential ideas in Southeast Asian history in recent decades has been Anthony Reid's Age of Commerce thesis, which sees a commercial boom and the emergence of port cities as hubs of commerce over the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, which in turn spurred political, social and economic changes throughout the region. But how new were the changes described in Reid's Age of Commerce? This paper argues that the four centuries from circa 900 to 1300 CE can be seen as an ‘Early Age of Commerce’ in Southeast Asia. During this period, a number of commercial and financial changes in China, South Asia, the Middle East and within the Southeast Asian region, greatly promoted maritime trade, which induced the emergence of new ports and urban centres, the movement of administrative capitals toward the coast, population expansion, increased maritime links between societies, the expansion of Theravada Buddhism and Islam, increased monetisation, new industries, new forms of consumption and new mercantile organisations. It is thus proposed that the period from 900 to 1300 be considered the Early Age of Commerce in Southeast Asian history.
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Lost kingdoms : Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of early Southeast Asia /
\"Numerous Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished in Southeast Asia from the 5th to the 9th century, yet until recently few concrete details were known about them. Lost Kingdoms reveals newly discovered architectural and sculptural relics from this region, which provide key insights into the formerly mysterious kingdoms. The first publication to use sculpture as a lens to explore this period of Southeast Asian history, Lost Kingdoms offers a significant contribution and a fresh approach to the study of cultures in Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and other countries\"--Distributor's website.
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Engaging the South: Ming China and Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century
The fifteenth century witnessed Ming China expanding its interactions with areas to the south-areas which we today refer to as Southeast Asia. This involved overland political expansion, the gradual incorporation of Tai polities, as well as their economic exploitation. The twenty-year incorporation of the Ðại Việt policy was also part of this process. In the maritime realm, following the early fifteenth-century sending of massive armadas in an attempt to achieve a pax Ming in the region, the Ming court made efforts to ban maritime commerce by non-state players. This paper examines the effects that these various Ming policies had on Southeast Asia in the political, economic, technological, and cultural spheres. /// Le XVIème siècle vit la multiplication des interventions de la Chine des Ming dans la région aujourd'hui dénommée Asie du Sud-Est. Elles entraînèrent une expansion politique terrestre, l'annexion progressive des royaumes Thaïs et leur exploitation économique. L'incorporation du royaume de Ðại Việt à la Chine durant vingt années, s'inscrit dans le même développement. Dans le domaine maritime, le début du XVIème siècle est marqué par l'envoi d'armadas qui tentèrent d'imposer la pax Ming dans l'Asie du Sud-Est., la cour Ming s'efforçant d'exclure le négoce privé du commerce maritime. Cette contribution étudie les effets de l'ensemble des stratégies des Ming en Asie du Sud-Est dans la sphère politique, économique, technologique et culturelle.
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The beginnings of a ‘Cold War’ in Southeast Asia: British and Australian perceptions
The questions of how and when the Cold War manifested itself in Southeast Asia are here examined through the perceptions of Britain and Australia to regional and global events from 1945 to 1950. Both had major stakes in the eventual results of the local contentions in Southeast Asia, as well as in the global effects of great power rivalry. Yet even for these powers, determining when they believed the Cold War came to Southeast Asia is dependent on the definition adopted. By 1946, there was already recognition of entrenched ideological conflict in Southeast Asia, and that this threatened Western interests. In 1947, there was recognition of connections between the local communist parties and the ‘global designs’ of the Soviet Union. In 1948, there was the outbreak of armed violence in Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, though there was no evidence of direct Soviet involvement in these. Ultimately, however, it was the establishment of the PRC in 1949 (as a major regional communist power), in tandem with plans by non-communist states to coordinate policy against communism, which was seen as marking the arrival of fully-fledged Cold War in Southeast Asia.
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ASEAN DIVIDES
In 2010, as ASEAN celebrated the forty-third year of its existence as a regional organization, signs of its fragmentation became increasingly manifest. The ASEAN Secretariat pursued its initiatives for ASEAN Integration, lauded \"ASEAN Centrality\", and dutifully held its more than 300 meetings over the course of the year. At the same time, the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), under the guidance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and China, went from strength to strength in developing a wide array of new linkages, alliances, interactions, and interdependencies in mainland Southeast Asia. The GMS has moved steadily from \"sub-region\" towards \"region\", and they are seeing the cracks which will almost inevitably produce a permanently divided ASEAN. ASEAN's most recent response to this threat of division is the call for more \"connectivity\" among the ASEAN states. The \"Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity\" was announced at the 17th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi in October 2010. It focuses on the three areas of physical, institutional, and people-to-people connectivity.
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THE ZHENG HE VOYAGES: A REASSESSMENT
The Ming eunuch Zheng He, who commanded fleets that voyaged to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean in the early fifteenth century, is today depicted as an 'ambassador of friendship' between China and other nations. The present article suggests a revisionist view of the man and his voyages. By examining these 'voyages to the Western Ocean' as simply an element of the southern expansion by the Yong-le emperor (1403-24), linked to his invasions of Oai Viet and Yun-nan, we see these 'voyages of friendship' as aggressive attempts to achieve a pax Ming'm the Asian maritime realm, with Melaka, Palembang, and Samudera as key elements. We also observe Ming efforts to dominate the trade routes linking the Middle East and East Asia. The paper concludes with a discussion of the characteristics of colonialism and imperialism and suggests that the voyages constituted a maritime proto-colonialism.
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