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Restless Empire - China and the World Since 1750 (Paperback)
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Restless Empire - China and the World Since 1750 (Paperback)
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List price R476
Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
You Save R86 (18%)
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Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval,
China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China's
course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's
Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country's worldview has
evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by
both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents
the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda.
Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as
the world's largest economy. By then the country expects to have
eradicated poverty among its population of more than one and a half
billion, and established itself as the world's technological
powerhouse. Meanwhile, some - especially its neighbours - are
afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to
bend others to its will. A new form of Chinese nationalism is
rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices and
fear a loss of identity to commercial forces and foreign
influences. So, will China's attraction to world society dwindle,
or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a
Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia, or pursue a more
harmonious diplomatic route? And can it overcome its lack of
democracy and transparency, or are these characteristics hard-wired
into the Chinese system? Whatever the case, we ignore China's
international history at our peril. Restless Empire is a
magisterial and indispensible history of the most important state
in world affairs today. WINNER OF THE 2013 ASIA SOCIETY BERNARD
SCHWARTZ BOOK AWARD
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