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

Title
The mind of empire [electronic resource] : 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
1 online resource (xii, 380 p.)
Series Statement
Asia in the new millennium
Uniform Title
  • Mind of empire (Online)
  • Asia in the new millennium.
Alternative Title
Mind of empire (Online)
Subject
  • Exceptionalism > China > History
  • China > Foreign relations > History
  • China > Foreign relations > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-370) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2010006310
OCLC
ssj0000423237
Author
Ford, Christopher A., 1967-
Title
The mind of empire [electronic resource] : 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 (p. [283]-370) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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