Debatable Scenarios. "A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence" by Martin Stuart-Fox. [review]

Abstract

Stuart-Fox's tightly organised book covers around 2000 years of relationships between China and the many kingdoms and countries of South-East Asia. He argues,as a good historian should, that the past will powerfully shape the future: ‘a new pattern of power relations is emerging, one that harks back in significant ways to earlier times.’