LDR 01486nam a22002417a 4500 005 20100111123757.0 020 _a9780820333342 040 _cIFS 041 _aeng 100 _aHorner, Charles _d1943- 245 _aRising China and its Postmodern Fate : _bMemories of Empire in a New Global Context _cCharles Horner 260 _aAthens, Georgia _bUniversity of Georgia Press _c2009 300 _axiv, 224 p. _c24 cm. 504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and index. 505 0 _aA memory of empire: the new past of old China -- The Yuan Dynasty and the Pax Mongolica -- The Ming Dynasty and the Pax Sinica -- The Qing Dynasty and the Pax Manjurica -- The proletarian dynasty of Chairman Mao -- The history of the world as China's own -- China's continent and the world city -- A peaceful rise and memories of violence -- The strange death of the Soviet empire -- The Chinese people are a heap of loose sand -- Rising China's grand design. 650 _aHistory -- Foreign Relations -- Historiography -- Yuan 650 _aHistory -- Foreign Relations -- Historiography -- Ming 650 _aHistory -- Foreign Relations -- Historiography -- Qing 906 _a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg 942 _2ddc 955 _acc14 2008-11-13 _icc14 2008-11-13 _ard05 2008-11-14 _axe12 2009-07-10 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. 999 _c340074 _d340074 952 _r2010-01-11 _x09450275 _40 _00 _621600251 _9205037 _10 _o2160/0251 _d2010-01-11 _z340074 _70 _c1 _g35.66 _yBOOK _aIFS