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Lee Yan Fong Library
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Lee Yan Fong Library |
JZ1734 F74 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | 00029532 |
JZ1480 F47 2005 Colossus : | JZ1480 L54 2007 The American era : | JZ1730 M674 2006 Foreigners within the gates : | JZ1734 F74 2017 Everything under the heavens : | JZ4984.5 H364 2008 The United Nations : | JZ5538 R5255 2014 Peace : | JZ5588 B76 2013 International security : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index.
National humiliation -- Island barbarians -- The gullet of the world -- A pacified south -- Sons of heaven, setting suns -- Claims and markers.
For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer.