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Generally speaking, a kind of regional identification of East Asia had been formed through a historical path dependency consisting of two stages. This chapter aims to reconsider the historical significance and the political implications of the new stage of path dependency by analysing Chinese diplomatic policies on the systematization of economic integration of modern East Asia, on the basis of each stage of the historical path dependency of the East Asian area. The first stage appeared as the path-dependent chain of culture which was shared under the pre-modern Chinese World Order, and overall has retained the self-reinforcing systems and made some internal changes in the process. One systematic pattern has been reproduced especially on the periphery which had been regulated by the political upheavals in the centre of the Chinese World Order. The periphery has acquired its relative identity differing from that of the centre through transforming pre-modern nationalism into political and ideological resources. At the second stage, the political and military order was formed in conflict with Western powers under the impact of the systematic changes of Meiji Japan, which broke off the first path dependency in East Asia. The above-mentioned political and military order had continued for half a century under the systematic path dependency of the colonial empire. After the collapse of the Japanese Empire, American political/economic influences were strategically established and greatly enhanced in East Asia. East Asian economic unification was being realized under globalization since the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. At the present time, the economic cohesion of East Asia is shifting to a third stage of path dependency. The critical juncture can be attributed to the foundation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and South Korea (ASEAN Plus Three) (Kuala Lumpur Summit) in December 1997 during the Asian financial crisis. It was the ASEAN which led the foundation of this international institution.

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The Historical Path Dependency of Modern East Asia and Chinese Diplomacy

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    2025年

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  • Shigeo Nishimura

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Generally speaking, a kind of regional identification of East Asia had been formed through a historical path dependency consisting of two stages. This chapter aims to reconsider the historical significance and the political implications of the new stage of path dependency by analysing Chinese diplomatic policies on the systematization of economic integration of modern East Asia, on the basis of each stage of the historical path dependency of the East Asian area. The first stage appeared as the path-dependent chain of culture which was shared under the pre-modern Chinese World Order, and overall has retained the self-reinforcing systems and made some internal changes in the process. One systematic pattern has been reproduced especially on the periphery which had been regulated by the political upheavals in the centre of the Chinese World Order. The periphery has acquired its relative identity differing from that of the centre through transforming pre-modern nationalism into political and ideological resources. At the second stage, the political and military order was formed in conflict with Western powers under the impact of the systematic changes of Meiji Japan, which broke off the first path dependency in East Asia. The above-mentioned political and military order had continued for half a century under the systematic path dependency of the colonial empire. After the collapse of the Japanese Empire, American political/economic influences were strategically established and greatly enhanced in East Asia. East Asian economic unification was being realized under globalization since the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. At the present time, the economic cohesion of East Asia is shifting to a third stage of path dependency. The critical juncture can be attributed to the foundation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and South Korea (ASEAN Plus Three) (Kuala Lumpur Summit) in December 1997 during the Asian financial crisis. It was the ASEAN which led the foundation of this international institution.