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The Mind of Empire : China'...
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 Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations, Christopher A. Ford expertly traces China's self-image and its role in the world order from the age of Confucius to today. Ford argues that despite its exposure to and experience of the modern world, China is still strongly influenced by a hierarc
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monografia Rebiun36792981 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36792981 m o d | cr -n--------- 240125s2010 kyua o 001 0 eng d 0-8131-3551-6 1-282-93762-6 9786612937620 0-8131-7377-9 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng a-cc--- Ford, Christopher A. 1967-) author The Mind of Empire China's History and Modern Foreign Relations Christopher A. Ford First edition Lexington, Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky [2010] Lexington, Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky 2010 1 online resource (394 p.) 1 online resource (394 p.) Asia in the New Millennium Series Includes index Includes bibliographical references 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 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 Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations, Christopher A. Ford expertly traces China's self-image and its role in the world order from the age of Confucius to today. Ford argues that despite its exposure to and experience of the modern world, China is still strongly influenced by a hierarc English 0-8131-3974-0 0-8131-9263-3 Asia in the new millennium