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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824114803321

Autore

Horner Charles <1943->

Titolo

Rising China and its postmodern fate : memories of empire in a new global context / / Charles Horner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-55351-8

0-8203-3588-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Studies in security and international affairs

Disciplina

951.0072

Soggetti

Historiography - China

China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 Historiography

China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 Historiography

China History Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 Historiography

China Relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A memory of empire: the new past of old China -- The Yuan Dynasty and the Pax Mongolica -- The Ming Dynasty and the Pax Sinica -- The Qing Dynasty and the Pax Manjurica -- The proletarian dynasty of Chairman Mao -- The history of the world as China's own -- China's continent and the world city -- A peaceful rise and memories of violence -- The strange death of the Soviet empire -- The Chinese people are a heap of loose sand -- Rising China's grand design.