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The mind of empire : China's history and modern foreign relations /

With an economy and population that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is emerging as a twenty-first-century global superpower. Even though China is an international leader in modern business and technology, its ancient history exerts a powerful force on its foreign policy. In The Mind of Empi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ford, Christopher A., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, ©2010.
Colección:Asia in the new millennium.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.