内容简介

This volume is a compilation of papers presented at the interna-tional conference on Malaysia and Sino-Malaysian Relations held onApril 6 and 7, 2005. The conference was held to celebrate the estab-lishment of Institute of Malaysian Studies at -Xiamen University,China, and to provide a better understanding of Malaysia and ex-plore the impacts and implications of China''s rapid development forMalaysia and Southeast Asia as a whole. The conference brought to-gether more than thirty reputable exiaerts and scholars from Main-land China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia, Ja-pan, the Netherlands,U. K. ,U. S. ,China''s Hong Kong and China''sTaiwan.
The book consists of 14 papers, which touch upon a vast arrayof topics pertinent to Malaysia and Sino~Malaysian relations. Theycan be divided into two parts. The first half consists of 7 papersdealing with issues on economy, politics ,history and culture of Ma-laysia. The second half presents 7 papers discussing issues on Sino-Malaysian relations and regional cooperation. The wide disciplinarybackgrounds of the contributors to this book have enabled broadereconomic, historical, political~ and international relations aspects ofMalaysia and Sino-Malaysian relations to be discussed. The viewsexpressed in the papers of this volume do not necessarily reflect those of the editor or the institution.