Discourses of Weakness in Modern China Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"
Heftet /
2021
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9783593509020
Published
2021-03-02
Publisher
Campus Verlag
Height
216 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
41 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
586
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Biographical note
Iwo Amelung is professor of Sinology at Goethe University Frankfurt.
From the time of China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a “weak state” dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a world that was increasingly being understood in harsh Darwinian terms. Aiming to better understand contemporary China’s self-image and identity, this volume traces both the emergence of the narrative of China’s alleged “national ruin” and the discursive construction of China as the “Sick Man of East Asia.”
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Product details
ISBN
9783593509020
Published
2021-03-02
Publisher
Campus Verlag
Height
216 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
41 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
586
Edited by
Author