Study Of The Ming Dynasty Sino-thai Diplomatic Relations

In China's diplomatic relations of Ming Dynasty, Liu Qiu and Siam (i.e. Thailand) were two nations who had kept longest and most friendly diplomatic relations with China and the China-Siam diplomatic relations was the axis power between China and the Southeast Asia nations. I have discussed and evaluated the China-Thai diplomatic relations of Ming Dynasty by relevant historical records and the analytic method of marxist historical theory and interdisciplinary historical analytic method include Diplomacy, Culture, International Politics, the Analysis of International Relations and Geography and so on.This thesis includes three sections.In the first section, I have discussed the China-Siam diplomatic policy of Ming Dynasty by a static analysis and a dynamic analysis on three issues include political, economical and cultural affairs. Generally speaking, the China-Thai diplomatic policy of Ming Dynasty had positive, open, peaceful, friendly, equal and mutully beneficial characteristics, but political over economical and govenal beyond civil.In the second section, first, I incisely reviewed the China-Thai diplomatic relations' development before the Ming Dynasty. Secondly, I have discussed emphasizedly the stages, characteristics and causes of the China-Thai diplomatic relations' development of Ming Dynasty in order to probe into the China-Thai diplomatic relations' developmental track and law.In the third section, I have made further theoretical summary and evaluation of historical characteristics and historic significance.I wanted to observe the whole diplomatic relations of Ming Dynasty and the operations of the chao Gong diplomatic system who had affected the China's diplomatic relations during two thousands years in order to understand profoundly China's fudal society and ancient Asia and Pacific international relations.