Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through
a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization. What does the rise of
China represent, and how should the international community respond?
With a holistic rereading of Chinese longue durée history, Fei-Ling
Wang provides a simple but powerful framework for understanding the
nature of persistent and rising Chinese power and its implications for
the current global order. He argues that the Chinese ideation and
tradition of political governance and world order-the China Order-is
based on an imperial state of Confucian-Legalism as historically
exemplified by the Qin-Han polity. Claiming a Mandate of Heaven to
unify and govern the whole known world or tianxia (all under heaven),
the China Order dominated Eastern Eurasia as a world empire for more
than two millennia, until the late nineteenth century. Since 1949, the
People's Republic of China has been a reincarnated Qin-Han polity
without the traditional China Order, finding itself stuck in the
endless struggle against the current world order and the ever-changing
Chinese society for its regime survival and security. Wang also offers
new discoveries and assessments about the true golden eras of Chinese
civilization, explains the great East-West divergence between China
and Europe, and analyzes the China Dream that drives much of current
Chinese foreign policy.
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Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781438467504
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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