Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Conceptions and Misconceptions
Sino-Burmese Pre-Independence Relations: An Overview
Scope of the Study
pt. I The Vicissitudes of Sino-Burmese Relations During the Cold War Prelude: Setting the Stage
1.Sino-Burmese Relations 1949-1953: Suspicions and Equivocations
The Ideological Context of Sino-Burmese Relations
The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations
Tentative Contacts: 1950-1953
Analysis of Early Sino-Burmese Relations

2. China-Burma Ties in 1954: The Beginning of the Pauk Phaw Era
International Factors
China's Policy Toward Burma
Burma's Policy Toward China
Personalized Political Relations in 1954
Economic Relations in 1954

3. The Honeymoon Period: 1955-1966
- The U Nu Period
- The Ne Win Period (1962-1967)
- Economic Relations 1955-1966
- Cultural Relations 1955-1966

4. The Anti-Chinese Riots of 1967: The Rupture of the Pauk Phaw Ties
The "6.26" Anti-Chinese Riots
Contents note continued: Wrestling between Beijing and Rangoon
The Impact of the Anti-Chinese Riots
Causes of the Anti-Chinese Riots

5. From Rift to Renormalization of Relations: 1967-1971
The Renormalization of Sino-Burmese Relations
Causes of the Renormalization of Sino-Burmese Relations
The Context of China-U.S.-Soviet Triangular Relations

6. Sino-Burmese Ties: The Cicatrized Sino-Burmese Relationship 1972-1988
Political Relations
Economic Relations
Decline of Burmese Status in Chinese Diplomacy
pt. II The Challenges of China-Myanmar Relations in the Post-Cold War Era Prelude

7. China-Myanmar Strategic and Security Relations
Energy Issues: Gas, Oil, and Hydroelectric Power
Myanmar and Mineral Resources Security in China

8. China-Myanmar Economic and Trade Relations
China-Myanmar Trade
China-Myanmar Border Trade
Chinese Development Assistance, and Economic and Technical Cooperation
China's Investments in Myanmar
Contents note continued: China-Myanmar Economic Relations in the Context of Regional and Subregional Cooperation
Yunnan-Myanmar Economic Relations
Cross-Border Tourism
Chinese Migration into Myanmar
pt. III Sino-Burmese Relations within the International Power Context

9. Regional Impacts: Narcotics, Transport, and the Military in Sino-Myanmar Relations
Narcotics in the China-Myanmar Nexus
China's "Look South": The Sino-Myanmar Transport Corridor
The Military Factor

10. International Strategic Issues
Chinese Strategy in Myanmar
China-India: Myanmar as Nexus
Sino-Myanmar Cooperation and Japanese Concerns
"The Burden of Proximity" Thailand
The United States Burma Policy: "The Luxury of Distance"
The Role of International Organizations: The United Nations and ASEA
Sino-Myanmar Relations and International Responses
pt. IV Conclusions

11. Dilemmas of Mutual Dependence in a Globalized World
China's Dilemmas: Internal and External
Contents note continued: Myanmar's Five Dilemmas
U.S. Dilemmas
Regional Actors
Chinese-Myanmar Relations under "Discipline-Flourishing Democracy"
Coda

Appendices
1.Joint Statement Concerning Framework Document on Future Cooperation in Bilateral Relations between the People's Republic of China and Federation of Myanmar
2.People's Republic of China Plans and Strategies Mentioned in the Text
3.Chronology of Sino-Burmese Relations
4.Major Chinese Companies in Myanmar
5.Joint Statement Between The Republic of the Union of Myanmar and The People's Republic of China on Establishing a Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership
6.Summary: "Peking and the Burmese Communists: The Perils and Profits of Insurgency." Secret (later declassified) CIA Report, 1971.