China and Southeast Asia : Myths, Threats and Culture

by Gung-Wu, Wang

• ISBN13: 9789810238988
• ISBN10: 9810238983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co

Summary

The reemergence of China as a political force has triggered sharp reassessments of its future role in the Asia-Pacific region. There has been much hyperbole about China's economic power, especially if it is linked with the entrepreneurial talents of the ubiquitous Chinese spread around the globe. Some countries have been encouraged to sound warning bells about China's future ambitions to dominate the region. All this is not surprising, even understandable. But the danger of exaggeration to the point where efforts to predict what China and the Chinese will do become merely alarmist, and the predictions become self-fulfilling, has to be guarded against.

Table of Contents

Confronting Myths	1	(28)
``All Chinese are Rich''	6	(4)
``Greater China and 55 Million Overseas Chinese''	10	(5)
The China Threat?	15	(14)
China's Place in the Region	29	(26)
Wealth and Power	35	(2)
A Normal Nation-state	37	(5)
The Cultural Heritage	42	(13)
Culture in State Relations	55	(4)
The State-system Culture	58	(6)
China as a Culture-state	64	(3)
In the Asia-Pacific	67