Table of Contents

Introduction by Ho Khai Leong; PART I: History and Remembrance; 1. China Meets Southeast Asia: A Long-Term Historical Review by Wu Xiao An; 2. Philippine-China Connection from Pre-Colonial Period to Post-Cold War Era: An Assessment by Edgardo Dagdag; 3. Defining Identity through Remembering the War: Representation of the Second World War in Chinese Newspapers in the Immediate Postwar Singapore by Mike Shi-chi Lan; 4. Re-positioning "Patriotism": Various Aspects of Financial Support to China in Penang around 1911 by Shinozaki Kaori; 5. Perceptions of China for the Overseas Chinese Tea Traders in Colonial Singapore, 1928-1958 by Jason Lim; 6. Myanmar's Relations with China from Tagaung through Hanthswaddy-Taungngu Periods by Goh Geok Yian; PART II: The Cultural and Chinese Identity; 7. Capital Accumulation along Migratory Trajectories: China Students in Singapore's Secondary Education Sector by Yow Cheun Hoe; 8. China and the Cultural Identity of the Chinese in Indonesia by Aimee Dawis; PART III: Economy, Politics and Regionalism; 9. Strategic Policy Responses to the Emergence of China as an Economic Powerhouse: Southeast Asia Perspective by Ng Beoy Kui; 10. When Old Regionalism Meets New Regionalism: Taiwan and China in East Asian Regional Integration by Chin-Ming Lin; 11. Language Power: Relational Rhetoric and Historical Taciturnity A Study of Vietnam-China Relationship by Chan Yuk Wah.