| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 159 pages) |
| Series |
Yu Ying-shih lecture series |
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Yu Ying-shih lecture series.
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| Contents |
China in World History -- Another Kind of Nation -- Sovereign Relationships are Not Absolute -- A Revolution is a New Mandate -- Modernity, the State and Civilization |
| Summary |
Will the rise of China change the international system built by the industrial and constitutional democracies of the West of the past centuries? Should China be content with the maintenance of that system: one of competing nation-states of absolute sovereignty and relative power? Does the Confucian past contain a moral vision that may connect with universal human values of the modern world? And will the rising China become an engine for a renewed Chinese civilization that contributes to the equity in the international system? Pondering these fundamental questions, the author, a historian, probes into the Chinese perception of its place in world history, and traces the unique features that propel China onto its modern global transformation. He depicts the travails of renewal that China has to face and betters our understanding of China's position in today's interconnected world.--description from publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024032
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China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789629965365 |
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9629965364 |
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9789629969158 |
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9629969157 |
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