The New Chinese EmpireA new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it back. The Chinese dynastic state’s blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine, paternalism, and obsession with unity has continued to shadow ‘revolutionary China’. This book addresses the question central to China today: Is the People’s Republic of China, whose politics is a hybrid of Chinese imperial tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire? |
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Contents
The Problem of China | 1 |
How the Chinese Imperial State Was Formed | 29 |
We Are the World An Imperial Tradition Both Defensive and Superior | 55 |
The King is Dead Long Live the King The PostDynastic Quest for a New Political Order | 87 |
Red Emperor | 117 |
Your Mother is Still Your Mother | 139 |
Beijing Juggles the Legacy of Empire | 179 |
Maritime Empire | 205 |
Steppe Empire | 229 |
Foreign Policy Imperial Goals and Modes | 253 |
Foreign Policy HalfEmpire and HalfModern Nation | 279 |
Autocracys Last Legs? | 305 |
| 343 | |
| 361 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The New Chinese Empire |
| Author | Ross Terrill |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | UNSW Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0868407585, 9780868407586 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / China Political Science / Comparative Politics |
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