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

Ge, Zhao-guang (著); Hill, Michael Gibbs (譯)

著者

Ge, Zhao-guang (著) ; Hill, Michael Gibbs (譯)

出版年月日

2018.03.26

ページ

224

出版者

Harvard University Press

出版サイト

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/

出版地

Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Ge Zhaoguang is Professor in the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the

Department of History at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Michael Gibbs Hill is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at William & Mary and author of Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture.

キーワード

China; History; Nonfiction; Asia; Politics

抄録

Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamental questions that shape the domestic and international politics of the world's most populous country and its second largest economy. What Is China? offers an insider's account that addresses sensitive problems of Chinese identity and shows how modern scholarship about China--whether conducted in China, East Asia, or the West--has attempted to make sense of the country's shifting territorial boundaries and its diversity of ethnic groups and cultures.

Ge considers, for example, the ancient concept of tianxia, or All-Under-Heaven, which assigned supremacy to the imperial court and lesser status to officials, citizens, tributary states, and tribal peoples. Does China's government still operate with a belief in divine rule of All-Under-Heaven, or has it taken a different view of other actors, inside and outside its current borders? Responding both to Western theories of the nation-state and to Chinese intellectuals eager to promote "national learning," Ge offers an insightful and erudite account of how China sees its place in the world. As he wrestles with complex historical and cultural forces guiding the inner workings of an often misunderstood nation, Ge also teases out many nuances of China's encounter with the contemporary world, using China's past to explain aspects of its present and to provide insight into various paths the nation might follow as the twenty-first century unfolds.

Preface
Translator’s Introduction
Introduction: On the Historical Formation of “China” and the Dilemma of Chinese Identity
1. Worldviews: From “All-under-Heaven” in Ancient China to the “Myriad States” in the Modern World
2. Borders: On “Chinese” Territory
3. Ethnicity: Including the “Four Barbarians” in “China”?
4. History: Chinese Culture from a Long-Term Perspective
5. Peripheries: How China, Korea, and Japan Have Understood One Another since the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
6. Practical Questions: Will Cultural Differences between China and the West Lead to Conflict?
Afterword
Notes
Index

ISBN

9780674737143 (hc); 0674737148 (hc)

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