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UNINA9911009207403321 |
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Autore |
Pang Laikwan |
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Titolo |
One and All : The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty / / Pang Laikwan |
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Stanford University Press, 2024 |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2024] |
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©2024 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) |
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Sovereignty |
China Politics and government 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The mandate of heaven -- Fables of unity -- Revolution as foundation -- Popular sovereignty and republican literature -- Territorial sovereignty and socialist landscape paintings -- Economic sovereignty and post-socialist digital culture. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"The concept of sovereignty is a crucial foundation of the current world order. Regardless of their political ideologies no states can operate without claiming and justifying their sovereign power. The People's Republic of China (PRC) - one of the single most powerful states in contemporary global politics - has been resorting to the logic of sovereignty to respond to many external and internal challenges, from territorial rights disputes to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this book, Pang Laikwan analyzes the historical roots of Chinese sovereignty. Surveying the four different political structures of modern China - imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist - and the dramatic ruptures between them, Pang argues that the ruling regime's sovereign anxiety cuts across the long twentieth century in China, providing a strong throughline for the state-society relations during moments of intense political instability. Focusing on political theory and cultural history, the book demonstrates how concepts such as popular sovereignty, |
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territorial sovereignty, and economic sovereignty were constructed, and how sovereign power in China was both legitimized and subverted at various times by intellectuals and the ordinary people through a variety of media from painting and literature to internet-based memes. With the possibility of a new Cold War looming large, globalization disintegrating, and populism on the rise, Pang provides a timely reevaluation of the logic of sovereignty in China as power, discourse, and a basis for governance"-- |
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