China and the Wider World of the Asia-Pacific

中国与亚太地区

基本信息

批准号：
08208107
负责人：
TANAKA Kyoko
金额：
$ 16.38万
依托单位：
Nanzan University (1998)University of Shizuoka (1996-1997)
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
财政年份：
1996
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1996 至 1998
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Our team of 15 worked on China's relations with the Asia-Pacific region. We organized 15 workshops in 3 years. Of the 15 two were joint ones with the "Chinese World" and "Society" teams and one with the "World System" team of the "South Asia" Project, which were meant for interdisciplinary approaches. In June 1998, we took charge of the "China and the Asia-Pacific World" session of the 5th Plenary Conference in an attempt to share our findings with the other teams.3 years' joint research led us to some tentative conclusions. (1) With the end of the Cold War China's influence and economic relations became confined to the Asia-Pacific region and its new diplomatic strategy is to cultivate its Asian neighbours in order to secure peaceful environment and fend off American "threat". (2) A new "China threat theory" arose in Southeast Asia, but it is essentially different from that in the Cold War in 2 points : a) the "threat" is considered controllable through "constructive engagemenr" of China ; and b) it no longer involves the Overseas Chinese. (3) Economically, the "Chinese network" of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese greatly contributed to China's development in general and that in the South in particular. China has been extremely keen on strengthening their ties with the Overseas Chinese communities. (4) All the above 3 points indicate certain structural changes. Hong Kong's return to China and the Asian economic crisis in 1997 could cause further structural changes.

我们的 15 人团队致力于中国与亚太地区的关系。我们在 3 年内组织了 15 场研讨会。 15个项目中，有两个是与“华人世界”和“社会”团队联合的，一个是与“南亚”项目的“世界体系”团队合作的，旨在跨学科方法。 1998年6月，我们主持了五届五中全会的“中国与亚太世界”分会场，试图与其他小组分享我们的研究成果。经过三年的联合研究，我们得出了一些初步结论。（一）冷战结束后，中国的影响力和经济关系局限于亚太地区，其新的外交战略是拉拢亚洲邻国，以确保和平环境，抵御美国的“威胁”。（2）东南亚出现了新的“中国威胁论”，但它与冷战时期的“中国威胁论”有两点本质区别：a）“威胁”被认为可以通过中国的“建设性接触”来控制； b) 不再涉及华侨。（三）经济上，港台华侨的“华人网络”对中国特别是南方的发展作出了巨大贡献。中国一直非常热衷于加强与海外华人社区的联系。（4）以上3点都表明了一定的结构性变化。香港回归中国和1997年的亚洲经济危机可能会导致进一步的结构性变化。