| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
China's history and modern foreign relations |
| Author: |
FordChristopher A., 1967- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Lexington, Ky |
| Published: |
University Press of Kentucky; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 380 p.). |
| Series: |
Asia in the new millennium |
| Subject: |
Exceptionalism - History - China - |
| Subject: |
China - Foreign relations - |
| Subject: |
China - Foreign relations - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813173771/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-370) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813173771electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813192635hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0813192633hbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 itsworld-- and its future |