1st Edition

Contest for the South China Sea

By Marwyn Samuels Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1982. Wide-ranging and fully documented, this book is the first detailed study of the origins, contexts and consequences of the long-standing dispute between China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines over the Paracel and Spratly Archipelagos in the South China Sea - one of the world's most strategically important inter-ocean basins and China's southern maritime frontier.... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 A Chinese lake; Chapter 3 The open sea; Chapter 4 A question of sovereignty; Chapter 5 The post-war contest; Chapter 6 Battle for the Paracels; Chapter 7 China's ocean policy; Chapter 8 The southern maritime frontier;

Biography

Samuels, Marwyn