Description
| Product ID: | 9781478010845 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Sinotheory |
| Title: | China in the World |
| Subtitle: | Culture, Politics, and World Vision |
| Authors: | Author: Ban Wang |
| Page Count: | 232 |
| Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, China |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Ban Wang traces the shifting concept of the Chinese state from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how the Confucian notion of tianxia—“all under heaven”—influences China’s dedication to contributing to and exchanging with a common world. In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist even as China has adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia, meaning “all under heaven,” has constantly been updated into modern outlooks that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as key to overcoming interstate conflict, social fragmentation, and ethnic divides. Instead of geopolitical dominance, China’s worldviews stem as much from the age-old desire for world unity as from absorbing the Western ideas of the Enlightenment, humanism, and socialism. Examining political writings, literature, and film, Wang presents a narrative of the country’s pursuits of decolonization, national independence, notions of national form, socialist internationalism, alternative development, and solidarity with Third World nations. Rather than national exceptionalism, Chinese worldviews aspire to a shared, integrated, and equal world. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-25 |