Lee Gregory B.
Lee Gregory B. - China Imagined From European Fantasy To Spectacular Power - Hardcover
Lee Gregory B. - China Imagined From European Fantasy To Spectacular Power - Hardcover
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Description: If China' as Lee argues is a product of Westernisation then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name China was first used by sixteenth - century Europeans and its Chinese equivalent Zhongguo only gained currency in the mid - 1800s. China Imagined is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation - state. China's early history describes a multilingual space ruled by a homogeneous elite with its own minority culture - - a far cry from Maoism's national mass culture or Xi Jinping's state - controlled digital society today. Gregory Lee traces this complex diverse entity's evolution since the Opium Wars into a China made in 'our image. Today it is a great power integral to the global system whether it comes to climate change security or inequality. Given this rapid convergence with the West Xi's China holds up a mirror to our own nations. Trump's America Putin's Russia and post - Brexit Europe all betray echoes of the Chinese Dream'. If China is a product of Westernisation is it now the West's turn to become China?
Title: China Imagined From European Fantasy To Spectacular Power
Author(s): Lee Gregory B.
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787380165
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 1/15/2019
Category: International Relations
Description: If China' as Lee argues is a product of Westernisation then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name China was first used by sixteenth - century Europeans and its Chinese equivalent Zhongguo only gained currency in the mid - 1800s. China Imagined is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation - state. China's early history describes a multilingual space ruled by a homogeneous elite with its own minority culture - - a far cry from Maoism's national mass culture or Xi Jinping's state - controlled digital society today. Gregory Lee traces this complex diverse entity's evolution since the Opium Wars into a China made in 'our image. Today it is a great power integral to the global system whether it comes to climate change security or inequality. Given this rapid convergence with the West Xi's China holds up a mirror to our own nations. Trump's America Putin's Russia and post - Brexit Europe all betray echoes of the Chinese Dream'. If China is a product of Westernisation is it now the West's turn to become China?
Title: China Imagined From European Fantasy To Spectacular Power
Author(s): Lee Gregory B.
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787380165
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 1/15/2019
Category: International Relations
