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Damrong Thandee
Director, Center for Korean Studies
Ramkhamhaeng University
16 July 2014
Development of Peoples’ and Socio-
Cultural Relations between Northeast
and Southeast Asia
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Map of Northeast Asia
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Area 11.8 million sq. km.
Population 1,500 million
China, Taiwan,
North Korea,
South Korea,
Japan,
Mongolia
Map of Southeast Asia
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Area 4.6 million sq. km.
Population 593 million
ASEAN (10 members),
Papua New Guinea,
East Timor
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Map of East Asia
Chinese cultural
Influence over
Southeast Asia
Indian cultural
Influence over
Southeast Asia
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Bangkok – Beijing 3,295.5 km.
Bangkok – Seoul 3,720.4 km.
Bangkok – Tokyo 4,603.5 km.
Northeast and Southeast Asia: Distance
Emergence of man in Asia
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Place found Period
Australopethecus Yunnan, China 1.5 Million years
Homo erectus Java man Trinil, Sumatra 700,000 yrs.
Beijing man Choukoutien, Beijing 500,000 yrs.
Lampang man Lampang, Thailand 500,000 yrs.
* Silk road by sea.
Northeast Asia: Ancient Civilization
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Area Era Period
Huang Ho basin Xia, Shang dynasties 2,000 BC.
Yangze Kiang Basin
Early to Late Chou 700 BC.
Empire
Ch’in Han* Tang Yuan (Mongol) Ming Qing (Manchu)
211 BC. 206 BC. – 24 618 – 907 1271 – 1368 1368 – 1644 1644 - 1911
Pattern of Relationship: Ancient period
migration
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Northeast Asia
Korea Japan
Taiwan
mainland
Tibet Southern China
Southeast Asia
archipelago
China
India Tamil Negrito Arab - European
Economy Politics Hunting-gathering tribal feud Subsistence economy tribal war Primitive accumulation Search for peace
Negrito Arab European
Pattern of Relationship: Colonial period
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Korea Japan
China
mainland
Southeast Asia
archipelago
Northeast Asia
Economy Politics Capitalism divide and rule
East Asia co-prosperity sphere
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Pattern of Relationship: After WW.II
Korea Japan
Northeast Asia
China
mainland
Southeast Asia
archipelago Economy Politics Capitalism divide and rule
Japanese domination Chinese threat
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Pattern of Relationship: Present
Korea Japan
China
mainland
archipelago
Southeast Asia
Northeast Asia
Entrepreneurs Unskilled labor
Economy Politics
Capitalism ASEAN + 3
Chinese domination Chinese domination
Identity of Northeast Asians
Japanese - homogeneity
Korean - homogeneity
Chinese - 56 ethnic groups (Han 91%)
- civilization: food, chopstick,
religions, cloth
- Chinese characters
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Identity of Southeast Asians
Diversity 700 ethnic groups: race, languages
Religions/belief + animism
Economic systems: slash-burn cultivation, cash econo.
Political systems: monarchy, socialism, democracy
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Peoples in Southeast Asia
Papuan Mongoloid European
Indian Indonesian Negritos
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Good luck