Colin Chia is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research focuses on the contestation and politics of global governance and international orders, particularly over the issues of international trade and development. His research also investigates the politics of sovereignty and economic nationalism.
Rather than accept subordination to the Ming and Qing, Southeast Asian states contested Chinese international ordering in the early modern period.