Book Number: 21 628
Since the beginning of reliable historical evidence, Chinese influence, culture, and power have always moved southward.
In the first part of his book, FitzGerald details how Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma had all, to varying degrees, come under the influence of and acknowledged the power of China. Malaya, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, who never actually owed allegiance to China, nonetheless also experienced China's influence and power.
China's political influence in South-East Asia declined when territorial southward expansion ended with the rise of the Manchu Dynasty in 1664. Afterward, a massive migration of individual Chinese resulted in the large minorities of Chinese that can still be found in many South-East Asian countries today.
In the second part of his book, FitzGerald examines the cultural, economic, and political effects of this migration on the countries concerned and their implications for the future.
Many of FitzGerald's comments are prescient and pertinent today, and the book presents vital historical facts which need to be taken into account in any assessment of the probable future of the area.
(Bangkok 1993, reprinted from 1972 with a preface by Colin Mackerras) ISBN 974-8495-81-7
250 pp., 150 x 210 mm
27.50 US-Dollar
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