The mind of empire China's history and modern foreign relations
Christopher A. Ford
- Lexington, Ky University Press of Kentucky c2010
- xii, 380 p. 24 cm
- Asia in the new millennium. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-370) and index
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.
9780813192635
History -- Foreign Relations--History. History -- General -- Exceptionalism
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