Rising China and its postmodern fate
Subtitle: memories of empire in a new global context
By: Charles Horner.
Series: Studies in security and international affairs
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780820333342
Subjects: Historiography -- China; China -- Relations -- Foreign countries; China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- Historiography; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Historiography; China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A memory of empire: the new past of old China; title: The Yuan dynasty and the Pax Mongolica; title: The Ming dynasty and the Pax Sinica; title: The Qing dynasty and the Pax Manjurica; title: The proletarian dynasty of Chairman Mao; title: The history of the world as China's own; title: China's continent and the world city; title: A peaceful rise and memories of violence; title: The strange death of the Soviet empire; title: "The Chinese people are a heap of loose sand"; title: Rising China's grand design.