Answer:
South East Asia is taken in this history to include the countries of the Asian mainland
south of China, from Burma in the west to Vietnam in the east and the islands from
Sumatra in the west to the Philippines and New Guinea in the east.
It does not include Taiwan (Formosa), whose history seems to be more naturally part
of that of China. But it does include Hong Kong and Macao, the British and
Portuguese possessions on the south China coast, as their history is bound up with
that of South East Asia rather than with that of China.
With so many different countries being covered, the history of any one country is
necessarily fragmented. The following index makes it possible to read the history of
each, if so desired, more or less consecutively.
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