Ge, Zhaoguang
What Is China?
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674737143
- author:
- Ge, Zhaoguang
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard Universi
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 23.62 x 15.24 x 2.29 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Third World Development,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
What Is China? Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History by Zhaoguang Ge offers an insightful account of how China sees its place in the world. Ge explores the complex historical and cultural forces guiding the inner workings of an often misunderstood nation.
The book considers fundamental questions that shape domestic and international politics, including the concept of tianxia , or All-Under-Heaven, which assigned supremacy to the imperial court and lesser status to officials, citizens, tributary states, and tribal peoples. Ge also examines how China's government operates in relation to these concepts.
By wrestling with complex historical and cultural forces, Ge provides a nuanced understanding of China's encounter with the contemporary world, using its past to explain aspects of its present and to offer insight into various paths the nation might follow as the twenty-first century unfolds.
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