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100 1  _aFord, Christopher A.
       _d1967-
245 14 _aThe mind of empire
       _bChina's history and modern foreign relations
       _cChristopher A. Ford
260    _aLexington, Ky
       _bUniversity Press of Kentucky
       _cc2010
300    _axii, 380 p.
       _c24 cm
504    _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-370) and index
505 0  _aAn 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.
650  0 _aHistory -- Foreign Relations
       _xHistory.
650  0 _aHistory -- General -- Exceptionalism
830  0 _aAsia in the new millennium.
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955    _brf05 2010-02-25
       _crf05 2010-02-25 telework
       _arf16 2010-03-02 to subj.
       _axe10 2011-02-15 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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952    _r2011-06-16
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