Southeast Asia in China: Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements

Chang-Yau Hoon; Ying-kit Chan

doi:10.5771/9781793612151

Summary

As part of “China’s south,” Southeast Asia has historically assumed a peripheral position when juxtaposed against the power of the Chinese state. In the existing scholarly literature, the power asymmetry is reflected in the ostensible bias where most studies are about China’s presence in or engagement with Southeast Asia rather than the reverse; studies on the presence or influence of Southeast Asia in China have been a marginal enterprise. The present volume aims to fill this void by exploring the historical entanglements and contemporary engagements of Southeast Asia(ns) in China through a Southeast Asian perspective. As China seeks to understand Southeast Asia’s presence in the country on its own terms, it is also engaged in a process of self-discovery and defining where and how it should stand in relation to the region. Departing from the discourse of China as the a priori center dominating the scholarship on China–Southeast Asia relations, the present volume hopes to subvert such power relations in order to bring fresh perspectives on the historical and contemporary contributions of Southeast Asia(ns) in China.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1214-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1215-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 168
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. At the Crossroads of Empire and Nation No access
2. Ethnicity and Frontier Studies in Southwest China No access
3. Traversing the Migrant’s Corridor No access
1. Southeast Asian Studies in China No access
2. Responding to China’s Soft Power No access
3. Southeast Asian Capital in China No access
Glossary No access Pages 127 - 132
Bibliography No access Pages 133 - 158
Index No access Pages 159 - 166
About the Authors No access Pages 167 - 168