D'Arcy, Paul2015-12-130022-3344http://hdl.handle.net/1885/76346This survey reviews the growing role and presence of China in the Island Pacific. As the late Professor Ron Crocombe remarked, in the Pacific a major transition is under way from a range of European to Asian influences. Many Western observers have viewedThe Chinese pacifics: A brief historical review201410.1080/00223344.2014.9860782015-12-11