Full Description
Considering the important impact of Asian cultures on international relations, we conducted a multifaceted analysis and authentic summary of the Asian experiences and patterns of dealing with foreign relations from an Asian insider's perspective, aiming to find out where the diverging or converging diplomatic ways of the West and the East came from and what the positive diplomatic values and practices originated from Asian traditions are.Focusing on China, volume one thoroughly analyses the nature, political culture and mechanism of the tribute system from ancient time to the modern era within and beyond China. Volume two studies the culture and diplomacy of various individual Asian nations except for China, both in general and in particular cases, with an interdisciplinary approach., , , , . , , ., , , .
Contents
Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Asian Experiences Seen from Asian PerspectivesC. X. George Wei1 The Role of Buddhism in Communication between the Fou Nan Kingdom and the Liu Song DynastyAiqin Cheng and Jianhong Cai2 Yamato Culture and Japan's Diplomatic PredicamentLi Wen3 Public Opinion and Foreign Affairs: The Conscription System, National Consciousness, and the Warfare Propaganda of Japanese EmpireTian Xuemei4 Rabindranath Tagore and Subhas Chandra Bose: The Common Indian Philosophical Root of Their Political Ideas and the Conversion of Their Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism into Pan-AsianismCao Yin and C. X. George Wei5 How Special Has the Special Relationship between China and Vietnam Been? A Reexamination of Three Aspects of the Sino-Vietnamese Relations: The Chinese Model, the Chinese World Order, and Conflict ManagementXiaorong Han6 Thailand's Successful Diplomacy in the Nineteenth CenturyLi Min7 The Cultural Parameters of Indonesian Foreign Policy since 1945Geoffrey C. Gunn8 Form as Substance: Elements of Diplomacy from Premodern and Early Modern Southeast AsiaAlan Chong9 Religious Interactions and Transnational Diplomatic Representation: Protection for Persian Traders (Acem tuccari) in the Ottoman Lands around 1700Suraiya FaroqhiGlossaryIndex
