"In today's rapid rise and expansion of China's influence all around the world and in ASEAN during the past two decades … landscapes, economic issues, as well as social and cultural considerations. This book, China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN: Regional … Evidence and Local Responses, provides timely insights on some of the latest issues pertaining to ASEAN and China, rapidly …

Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric … transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch -- The social life of Chinese labor / Adam McKeown -- Opium as a commodity … China and Southeast Asia, the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries / Takeshi Hamashita -- Cochinchinese coin casting and …

China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The book assembles a package of next generation ideas for the patterns of regional trade …