By Martin Stuart-Fox
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I'm such a lot thankful additionally to the numerous diplomacy students, political analysts, historians, and diplomats in Beijing, Hanoi, Bangkok, Viang Chan, Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta who kindly gave me in their time. the chance to go to those capitals used to be supplied by means of a college of Queensland beginning furnish. The overseas Institute of Asian experiences in Leiden kindly supplied me with a traveling Fellowship to behavior a part of the historic learn. My thank you, eventually, to Robert Cribb, who drew the maps, to Milton Osborne, basic editor of this sequence, and to John Iremonger and the entire creation group at Allen & Unwin. ix shorthistory China pages 23/9/02 8:03 AM web page x Abbreviations AFPFL APEC ARF ASEAN BCE BCP CCP CE Comintern DRV FDI GMD ICP MCP NATO PAVN PKI PRC PRK ROC SEATO SRV UMNO UN united states USSR Vietminh VNQDD VOC ZOPFAN Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League Asia–Pacific monetary Co-operation ASEAN nearby discussion board organization of Southeast Asian international locations earlier than the typical period Burmese Communist occasion chinese language Communist get together universal period Communist foreign Democratic Republic of Vietnam overseas direct funding Guomindang (Nationalist celebration) Indochina Communist get together Malayan Communist get together North Atlantic Treaty association People’s military of Vietnam Partai Komunis Indonesia (Indonesian Communist occasion) People’s Republic of China People’s Republic of Kampuchea Republic of China South-East Asia Treaty association Socialist Republic Of Vietnam United Malays Nationalist employer United countries u . s . Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Viet Nam document Lap Dong Minh (Vietnam League for Independence) Vietnamese Nationalist get together Dutch East India corporation quarter of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality x shorthistory China pages 23/9/02 8:03 AM web page 1 1 creation This booklet sketches in large define the background of 2000 years of touch among the peoples and governments of China and the peoples and governments of Southeast Asia. this can be an bold project that provides a few seen difficulties. China itself has no longer continually been unified and Southeast Asia is a superbly different area that traditionally has comprised many extra self sustaining kingdoms and principalities than the 10 sleek states making up the organization of Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN). in addition frontiers have shifted over those thousand years, and as soon as strong self sufficient kingdoms in what's now southern China have disappeared. Historians don't simply recount previous occasions, notwithstanding: additionally they interpret them, frequently through declaring styles that impart which means. The early twenty-first century offers a handy vantage aspect from which to do that for China–Southeast Asia kinfolk. ecu powers have withdrawn from Southeast Asia, and after a interval of weak point and humiliation lasting greater than a century, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has restored a lot of China’s 1 shorthistory China pages 23/9/02 8:03 AM web page 2 a quick historical past of China and Southeast Asia former effect and standing.