The mind of empire : China's history and modern foreign relations /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2010]
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| Series: | Asia in the new millennium.
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Table of Contents:
- An emergent China and the weight of history
- History lessons
- Confucian conceptions of order
- Power and order in other Chinese traditions
- Western assumptions about international order
- Sinic universalism in theory and practice
- The prehistory of foreign engagement
- Engagement and status conflict
- Through formal equality to inferiority
- China's loss of its dependencies
- Imperial denouement
- Intellectual ferment in the Nationalist era
- Mao and the Middle Kingdom
- China and the foreign other
- Conceptual currents
- China imagines its world-- and its future.