What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history / Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill.
Chinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has undert...
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| Other title: | He wei Zhongguo: jiang yu, min zu, wen hua yu li shi. English. 何為中國: 疆域, 民族, 文化與歷史. English. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On the historical formation of "China" and the dilemma of Chinese identity
- Worldviews: from "all-under-heaven" in ancient China to the "myriad states" in the modern world
- Borders: on "Chinese" territory
- Ethnicity: including the "four barbarians" in "China"?
- History: Chinese culture from a long-term perspective
- Peripheries: how China, Korea, and Japan have understood one another since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Practical questions: will cultural differences between China and the West lead to conflict?