What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history / Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill.

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Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Main Author:
Ge, Zhaoguang, 1950- (Author)
Other Authors:
Hill, Michael (Michael Gibbs) (Translator)
Subjects:
National characteristics, Chinese.
Chinese > Attitudes.
China > History.
China > Civilization.
China > Boundaries.
China > Foreign relations.
Format: Electronic eBook
What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history /
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?

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