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The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "southern Fields and Southern Ocean" by Charles Patrick Fitzgerald is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Chinese influence, culture and power have always moved southward since the first age of which we have reliable historical evidence. In this book Professor FitzGerald tells the story of this southward expansion, both in the lands most directly affected by it - Yunnan which ended as a province of China, and Vietnam, north and south, which was once within the Empire, but has not been so since the end of the T'ang Dynasty - and in the further countries of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma, which all to varying degrees came under the influence and acknowledged the power of China. Beyond these countries were others, Malaya, Java, Sumatra and Borneo, which experienced Chinese influence, and sometimes her power, but which have not owed allegiance to China for several centuries. Although the territorial southward expansion of China ended with the rise of the Manchu Dynasty in 1664, and her political influence in South-East Asia then declined - due partly to the decline of Chinese seapower and partly to the arrival of European imperialist powers - there followed the massive migration of the individual Chinese, which resulted in the large minorities of Chinese in many South-East Asian countr
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- Author
- Charles Patrick Fitzgerald
- Publisher
- Canberra : Australian National University Press
- Published
- 1972
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780708102206
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Asian History
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14