What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History

Zhaoguang Ge

Published by Harvard University Press 2018

What Is China?

Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History

Zhaoguang Ge
Translated by: Michael Gibbs Hill

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674985001

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About this book

Ge Zhaoguang addresses sensitive questions of identity that shape the politics of the world’s most populous country. This insider’s account teases out nuances of China’s encounter with the contemporary world, using its past to explain its present and to provide insight into paths the nation might follow as the current century unfolds.

Author / Editor information

Ge Zhaoguang :

Ge Zhaoguang is Professor of the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the
Department of History at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Reviews

This book is remarkable. It helps us see how the Chinese see themselves, addressing issues such as China’s borders, its relations with its neighbors, and the notion that China and the West are on a collision course. Ge is not defending or attacking anything, but wants to talk to us about where China is with respect to the world, by thinking historically, by relativizing where we all find ourselves now. Sabre-rattlers on all sides, beware.', Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia 'Non-Chinese speakers have far too little access to the opinions of Chinese intellectuals today. This book gives an excellent overview of the main issues that lie behind the conundrum of a modern Chinese identity. Ge’s voice is one that most definitely needs to be heard by everyone in the West who ‘worries about China.’', Mark C. Elliott, Harvard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Translator’s Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: On the Historical Formation of “China” and the Dilemma of Chinese Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Worldviews: From “All-Under-Heaven” in Ancient China to the “Myriad States” in the Modern World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Borders: On “Chinese” Territory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Ethnicity: Including the “Four Barbarians” in “China”? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
History: Chinese Culture from a Long-Term Perspective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Peripheries: How China, Korea, and Japan Have Understood One Another since the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Practical Questions: Will Cultural Differences between China and the West Lead to Conflict? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages
- Main content: 224

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Published: March 26, 2018
ISBN: 9780674985001