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The mind of empire : China's history and modern foreign relations

Title
The mind of empire : China's history and modern foreign relations / Christopher A. Ford.
Author
Ford, Christopher A., 1967-
Publication
Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, c2010.

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Description
xii, 380 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Asia in the new millennium
Uniform Title
Asia in the new millennium.
Subject
  • Exceptionalism > China > History
  • China > Foreign relations > History
  • China > Foreign relations > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 10-4869
ISBN
  • 9780813192635 (acid-free paper)
  • 0813192633 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
2010006310
OCLC
YBP 2010006310
Author
Ford, Christopher A., 1967-
Title
The mind of empire : China's history and modern foreign relations / Christopher A. Ford.
Imprint
Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, c2010.
Series
Asia in the new millennium
Asia in the new millennium.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 10-4869
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