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_c24.75 B$
100 1 _aWANG Gungwu
245 0 _aChina and Southeast Asia:
_bmyths, threats, and culture
260 _aSingapore:
_bWorld Scientific Pub. Co.,
_c1999
300 _a88p.
440 _aEIA Occasional Paper series,
_vno 13
520 3 _aCollection of three essays each dealing with one of the subjects in the title. The first refutes the myth of the numbers of overseas Chinese and their often reported wealth; the second considers China's evolving relations with ASEAN particularly after the economic crisis of the late 1990s; the third considers culture as an integral part of international relations and in particular whether Western cultural constructs have now been translated into a global modern culture which nation states (themselves a Western concept) have adopted universally.
650 _aCHINA
_xFOREIGN RELATIONS
_xSOUTHEAST ASIA
650 _aCHINESE CULTURE
650 _aCHINESE PEOPLE
650 _aOVERSEAS CHINESE
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