The Historical Legacy Of Tributary System And Its Influence On Relations Between China And Its Circumjacent Countries

The Tributary System started from the "five costumes system" before the dynasty of Qin, developed form the dynasty of Qin and Han, perfect in the dynasty of Tang and Song, consummated in the dynasty of Ming and Qing, degenerated and ended in the later Qing Dynasty. The Tributary System offered peace and harmonious to the Asia areas in agricultures based on petty farmer times. improved the civilization spread and the culture developing. The achievements and its historical advancements did not allow to be obliterated. But the negative effects of its historical legacy are still affecting the countries of Asia, preventing the area cooperation going to the further. These questions' resolve whether or not is related to the speed and quality of the china's rising, also is we must to face and endeavor to work out. The papers discuss the affection of the negative effects of the Tributary System historical legacy on the china and its circumjacent countries and hope to find the approaches to the problems.The foreign relations with circumjacent regions of China are facing great complexity, in the case of traditional security problems still protuberant, there are many new problems comes into being, for example the pipeline security of oil transportation, and non- traditional security problems are became more and more worse, the terrorism, splittism and ultraism being threatening the region security. And the global catastrophe, epidemic disease, mass disaster weapon and financial crisis need the endeavor of the whole countries of the region, no one could deal it singly.The thesis can be divided into the following parts:The first part is introduction, introduce the background and meaning of the papers, gives the theme that the Tributary System and china's circumjacent countries. Then according to the research production giving the reason of this theme, theory origin, the conditions and comment of this theme's research, then giving the idea and frame of this papers.The first chapter introduces the beginning and developing course of the Tributary System. Present the concept of the Tributary System, and the factors of the disaggregation the Tributary System. Then introduce the operation principle and mode of the Tributary System, which maintain the Tributary System operating in a long times.The second chapter discusses the negative effects of its Historical Legacy are still affecting the countries of Asia. The Tributary System could operate for many years just because the profound historical factors and its logical principle. The historical legacy of The Tributary System should be divided into two parts, the positive effect and negative effect. The positive effect just is the Tributary System offered peace and harmonious to the Asia areas in agricultures based on petty farmer times, improved the civilization spread and the culture's develop, shape the "circle of Confucian culture". The negative effect is the idea of ranks and china threatens and debated of domain and marginal sea result from the negative effects of the Tributary System. And these negative effects prevent the area cooperation going into the further.The third chapter introduces the china's responses to the negative effects of the Tributary System, the multilateral diplomacy, construction of the area security system and the saying of china's development. Propagandize the ideas of Chinese peaceful rising and the construct the harmonious society in the world. The last part is the conclusion, sum up the paper and end the papers.