Book Reviews
Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology
College of Arts and Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Andres Bonifacio Avenue, Tibanga, Iligan City
A Requirement in History 122
ANNOTATED BOOK REVEW related to the descriptive course
Modern East Asia entitled A Short History of China And Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence
By: Martin Stuart-Fox
Submitted by: Michelle Titular Cortes
Submitted to:
Prof. Rey Luis Montesclaros
March 4, 2013
Stuart-Fox, Martin. A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence. Australia: South Wind Production, 2003.
This book sketches in broad outline the history of 2000 years of contact between the peoples and governments of China and the peoples and governments of Southeast Asia. This is an motivated undertaking that presents some obvious problems. China itself has not always been unified and Southeast Asia is a wonderfully varied region that historically has comprised many more independent kingdoms and principalities than the ten modern states making up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Moreover frontiers have shifted over these two thousand years, and once powerful independent kingdoms in what is now southern China have disappeared. Historians do not just recount past events, however: they also interpret them, often by pointing out patterns that impart meaning. What this book will attempt to do is to trace the changing relations between China and Southeast Asia from the points of view of both sides. How both sides, as regions—China as unified empire (for most of the time) and Southeast Asia comprising a collection of kingdoms and states—related to each other evolved over time and according to circumstances. The international relations cultures of both China and Southeast Asian polities—comprising cognitive, cultural, political, diplomatic,
College of Arts and Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Andres Bonifacio Avenue, Tibanga, Iligan City
A Requirement in History 122
ANNOTATED BOOK REVEW related to the descriptive course
Modern East Asia entitled A Short History of China And Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence
By: Martin Stuart-Fox
Submitted by: Michelle Titular Cortes
Submitted to:
Prof. Rey Luis Montesclaros
March 4, 2013
Stuart-Fox, Martin. A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence. Australia: South Wind Production, 2003.
This book sketches in broad outline the history of 2000 years of contact between the peoples and governments of China and the peoples and governments of Southeast Asia. This is an motivated undertaking that presents some obvious problems. China itself has not always been unified and Southeast Asia is a wonderfully varied region that historically has comprised many more independent kingdoms and principalities than the ten modern states making up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Moreover frontiers have shifted over these two thousand years, and once powerful independent kingdoms in what is now southern China have disappeared. Historians do not just recount past events, however: they also interpret them, often by pointing out patterns that impart meaning. What this book will attempt to do is to trace the changing relations between China and Southeast Asia from the points of view of both sides. How both sides, as regions—China as unified empire (for most of the time) and Southeast Asia comprising a collection of kingdoms and states—related to each other evolved over time and according to circumstances. The international relations cultures of both China and Southeast Asian polities—comprising cognitive, cultural, political, diplomatic,