What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history /

Chinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has undert...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ge, Zhaoguang, 1950- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Hill, Michael (Michael Gibbs) (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
National characteristics, Chinese.
Chinese > Attitudes.
Chinois.
Chinois > Attitudes.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
HISTORY > Historiography.
Boundaries.
Civilization.
Diplomatic relations.
China > History.
China > Civilization.
China > Boundaries.
China > Foreign relations.
Chine > Histoire.
Chine > Civilisation.
Chine > Relations extérieures.
China.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: On the historical formation of "China" and the dilemma of Chinese identity
  • Worldviews: from "all-under-heaven" in ancient China to the "myriad states" in the modern world
  • Borders: on "Chinese" territory
  • Ethnicity: including the "four barbarians" in "China"?
  • History: Chinese culture from a long-term perspective
  • Peripheries: how China, Korea, and Japan have understood one another since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Practical questions: will cultural differences between China and the West lead to conflict?

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