Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780804172455ISBN-10:804172455UPC:9780804172455Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Asia, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Asian, China, Nationalism & PatriotismSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC4Q4CT62F
For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That fa ade, reports former New York Times Asia correspondent Howard French, has now been cast off. China is increasingly asserting its place among the global powers, signaling 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 the millennia-old concept of tian xia, which held that everything "under the heavens" fell within the influence of the Chinese empire. If we understand how this historical identity continues to color current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--as the world order is poised to shift. Steeped in deeply researched history and on-the-ground reporting, this is French at his revelatory best. With a New Afterword
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780804172455ISBN-10:804172455UPC:9780804172455Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Asia, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Asian, China, Nationalism & PatriotismSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC4Q4CT62F
Howard W. French wrote from Africa for The Washington Post and at The New York Times was bureau chief in Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan, and China. He is the recipient of two Overseas Press Club awards and a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. He is the author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa and China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa; he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone, among other national publications. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. www.howardwfrench.com
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