What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history /
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| Language: | English Chinese |
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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?.