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Spanning over a millennium 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 pasts. 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 wide-ranging historical context to changing
relations in the region today - perhaps one of the most intense
re-orderings occurring anywhere in the world. From maritime trading
relations and political interactions to overland Chinese expansion
and commerce in Southeast Asia, this book reveals rarely explored
connections across the China-Southeast Asia interface. In so doing,
it transcends existing area studies boundaries 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
those engaged with Southeast Asia.
Spanning over a millennium 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 pasts. 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 wide-ranging historical context to changing
relations in the region today - perhaps one of the most intense
re-orderings occurring anywhere in the world. From maritime trading
relations and political interactions to overland Chinese expansion
and commerce in Southeast Asia, this book reveals rarely explored
connections across the China-Southeast Asia interface. In so doing,
it transcends existing area studies boundaries 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
those engaged with Southeast Asia.
Water Frontier focuses principally on southwest Indochina (from
modern southern Vietnam into eastern Cambodia and southwestern
Thailand), which it calls the Lower Mekong region. The book's
excellent contributors argue that, during the eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries, this area formed a single trading zone woven
together by the regular itineraries of thousands of large and small
junk traders. This zone in turn formed a regional component of the
wider trade networks that linked southern China to all of Southeast
Asia. This is the "water frontier" of the title, a sparsely settled
coastal and riverine frontier region of mixed ethnicities and often
uncertain settlements in which the waterborne trade and commerce of
a long string of small ports was essential to local life. This
innovative book uses the water frontier concept to reposition old
nation-state oriented histories and decenter modern dominant
cultures and ethnicities to reveal a different local past. It
expands and deepens our understanding of the time and place as well
as of the multiple roles played by Chinese sojourners, settlers,
and junk traders in their interactions with a kaleidoscope of local
peoples.
Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity
expansions over time. Recognising the territorial expansions of
Asian polities large and small through the last several millennia
helps rectify the fallacy, long-held and deeply entrenched, that
Asian polities have been interested only in the control of
populations, not in expanding their command of territory. In
countering this misapprehension, this book suggests that Asian
polities have indeed been concerned with territorial control and
expansion over time, whether for political or strategic advantage,
trade purposes, defence needs, agricultural expansion or increased
income through taxation. The book explores the historical
experiences of a set of polity expansions within Asia, specifically
in East and Southeast Asia, and, by examining the motivations,
mechanisms, processes, validations and limitations of these Asian
territorial expansions, reveals the diverse avenues by which Asian
polities have grown. The chapters draw on these historical examples
to highlight the connections between Asian polity expansion and
centralised political structures, and this aids in a broader and
more comprehensive understanding of Asian political practice, both
past and present. Through these chapter studies and the integrative
introduction, the book interrogates key concepts such as
imperialism and colonialism, and the applicability and relevance of
such terminology in Asian contexts, both historical and
contemporary. Comparisons and contrasts with European historical
expansions are also suggested. This book will be welcomed by
students and scholars of Asian history, as well as by those with an
interest in Asian interactions, international relations, polity
expansion, Asia--Europe historical comparisons and globalisation.
Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity
expansions over time. Recognising the territorial expansions of
Asian polities large and small through the last several millennia
helps rectify the fallacy, long-held and deeply entrenched, that
Asian polities have been interested only in the control of
populations, not in expanding their command of territory. In
countering this misapprehension, this book suggests that Asian
polities have indeed been concerned with territorial control and
expansion over time, whether for political or strategic advantage,
trade purposes, defence needs, agricultural expansion or increased
income through taxation. The book explores the historical
experiences of a set of polity expansions within Asia, specifically
in East and Southeast Asia, and, by examining the motivations,
mechanisms, processes, validations and limitations of these Asian
territorial expansions, reveals the diverse avenues by which Asian
polities have grown. The chapters draw on these historical examples
to highlight the connections between Asian polity expansion and
centralised political structures, and this aids in a broader and
more comprehensive understanding of Asian political practice, both
past and present. Through these chapter studies and the integrative
introduction, the book interrogates key concepts such as
imperialism and colonialism, and the applicability and relevance of
such terminology in Asian contexts, both historical and
contemporary. Comparisons and contrasts with European historical
expansions are also suggested. This book will be welcomed by
students and scholars of Asian history, as well as by those with an
interest in Asian interactions, international relations, polity
expansion, Asia--Europe historical comparisons and globalisation.
In the 20 years since the Paris accords of 1991 brought peace to
Cambodia, the country has undergone what can only be described as
astounding change. From a polity where the entire fabric of society
had been rent asunder through years of war and genocide,
contemporary Cambodia is fast becoming a vibrant state and assuming
a new position in the Asia-Pacific region. The contributions to
this volume - many by prominent figures who were intimately
connected with the process - describe the diverse strands of
mediation and peace-building which went into the creation of the
1991 accords. The subsequent role of UNTAC and the 1993 general
elections in the process of Cambodian revival and social rebuilding
are also described. While not denying that obstacles and
difficulties remain, the contributions outline the evolving
economic, political, religious, and human resource situations
within Cambodia, while also examining the country's contemporary
international relations. This book constitutes a particularly
fitting testament to the twenty years of Cambodian reconstruction
which have followed the 1991 peace accords.
To celebrate Anthony Reid's numerous and seminal contributions to
the field of Southeast Asian history, a group of his colleagues and
students has contributed essays for this Festschrift. In addition
to introductory essays which provide personal and intellectual
histories of Anthony Reid the man, there is a range of original
scholarly contributions addressing historical issues which Reid has
researched during his career. Divided into sections which examine
Southeast Asia in the world, early modern Southeast Asia, and
modern Southeast Asia, these works engage with issues ranging from
the Age of Commerce and comparative Eurasian history, to
nationalism, ethnic hybridity, Islam, technological change, and the
Chinese and Arabs in Southeast Asia. The authors include some of
the foremost historians of Southeast Asia in our generation.
This book takes stock of the results of some two decades of
intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the
Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual
sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the
trans-cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it
brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a
fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays
reappraise the millennium-long historiographic no-man's land during
which exchanges between the two shores of the Bay of Bengal led,
among other processes, to the Indianisation of those parts of the
region that straddled the main routes of exchange. Some essays
follow up these processes into better known ""classical"" times or
even into modern times, showing that the localisation process of
Indian themes has long remained at work, allowing local societies
to produce their own social space and express their own ethos.
The fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history - too
late for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for
indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European
ships, ideas and economies in the early sixteenth century has long
been seen as the origin of the early modern era in Southeast Asia,
but the present collection challenges this view, suggesting that
intense and lasting political and economic changes were already
well underway by 1500. The argument rests on developments such as
the introduction of firearms, more intensive rice agriculture, Thai
and Viet ceramic exports, Korean and Ryukyu contacts with Southeast
Asia, the demise of Champa, the climax of Viet and northern Tai
statecraft, the birth of the Melayu-Muslim kingship in Melaka and
the creation of a new Muslim Javanese civilization on Java's north
coast. Coincident with these changes, Ming China's engagement with
Southeast Asia grew as a result of overland expansion into the Tai
and Viet polities, state-sponsored maritime voyages, and private
Chinese trade and migration to the region. Southeast Asia in the
Fifteenth Century: The China Factor draws together the great
changes that occurred in Southeast Asia during the fifteenth
century, and considers the extent to which Ming China's engagement
with the region helped usher in the early modern period of
Southeast Asian history.
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