4 Zone Two: The Asia Region

1 Mark Edward Lewis, The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), p. 143.

2 Wu Jiao and Zhang Yunbi, ‘Xi in call for building new “maritime silk road”’, China Daily USA [website] (4 October 2013). Available at http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-10/04/content_17008940.htm.

3 Quoted in Nguyen Hong Thao, ‘Why the US–China summit failed on the South China Sea’, The Diplomat (9 October 2015). Available at http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/why-the-us-china-summit-failed-on-the-south-china-sea/.

4 See Bill Hayton, The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2014) for an overview of the history and current status of this issue.

5 See Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival (London: Penguin, 2013) for a masterly overview of this era.

6 This comment appears to derive from the vast unattributed statements of Mao, many of which arose from the Cultural Revolution era. It is referred to on the BBC History website in the article ‘China and Japan: seven decades of bitterness’ (13 February 2014). Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25411700.

7 For an exhaustive account of Deng’s visits to other countries, including Japan, during the early phase of the so-called Reform and Opening Up era after 1978 see Ezra Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013).

8 See Kerry Brown, Hu Jintao: China’s Silent Ruler (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012).

9 Alyssa Abkowitz, ‘China is now the top source of foreign tourists to Japan’, Wall Street Journal (2 December 2015). Available at http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/12/02/china-is-now-the-top-source-of-foreign-tourists-to-japan/.

10 Jane Perlez and David E. Sanger, ‘John Kerry urges China to curb North Korea’s nuclear pursuits’, New York Times (27 January 2016). Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/world/asia/us-china-north-korea.html?_r=0.

11 Andrei Lankov, The Real North Korea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

12 For comparative material on this, see Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze, An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (London: Penguin, 2013).

13 See Bill Emmott, Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India, and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).

14 See Andrew Small, The China–Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics (New York and London: Hurst, 2015).

15 Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2007).

16 John Pomfret, ‘US takes a tougher line with China’, Washington Post (30 July 2010). Available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/29/AR2010072906416.html.

17 The Economist, ‘Divided we stagger’ (18 August 2012). Available at http://www.economist.com/node/21560585.

18 Nargiza Salidjanova and Iacob Koch-Weser, ‘China’s economic ties with ASEAN: a country-by-country analysis’, US–China Economic and Security Review Commission (March 2015), p. 6. Available at https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/China%27s%20Economic%20Ties%20with%20ASEAN.pdf.

19 See Paul G. Pickowicz and Jeremy Brown (eds), Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), for an overview of this era.

20 Bobo Lo, Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics (Washington DC: Brookings Institute Press, 2009).

21 See Xi Jinping, The Governance of China (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2014).

22 Gideon Rachman, ‘Davos leaders: Shinzo Abe on WWI parallels, economics and women at work’, Financial Times (22 January 2014). Available at http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2014/01/davos-leaders-shinzo-abe-on-war-economics-and-women-at-work/.