What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history /
Chinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has undert...
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Uniform title: | He wei Zhongguo. |
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Other Authors / Creators: | Hill, Michael translator. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English Chinese |
Language notes: | Translated into English from original Chinese. |
Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On the historical formation of "China" and the dilemma of Chinese identity
- Worldviews: from "all-under-heaven" in ancient China to the "myriad states" in the modern world
- Borders: on "Chinese" territory
- Ethnicity: including the "four barbarians" in "China"?
- History: Chinese culture from a long-term perspective
- Peripheries: how China, Korea, and Japan have understood one another since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Practical questions: will cultural differences between China and the West lead to conflict?