The mind of empire
Subtitle: China's history and modern foreign relations
By: Christopher A. Ford.
Series: Asia in the new millennium
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813192635
Subjects: Exceptionalism -- China -- History; China -- Foreign relations -- History; China -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An emergent China and the weight of history; title: History lessons; title: Confucian conceptions of order; title: Power and order in other Chinese traditions; title: Western assumptions about international order; title: Sinic universalism in theory and practice; title: The prehistory of foreign engagement; title: Engagement and status conflict; title: Through formal equality to inferiority; title: China's loss of its dependencies; title: Imperial denouement; title: Intellectual ferment in the Nationalist era; title: Mao and the Middle Kingdom; title: China and the foreign other; title: Conceptual currents; title: China imagines its world; title: and its future.