The Resource What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history, Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill
What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history, Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill
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- Summary
- Chinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has undertaken the task of explaining China to foreigners. He examines the historical and cultural background of China's emergence as a major world power from a Chinese perspective. Ge argues that the meanings of China and Chinese culture regularly change and avoid a single definition, and that honest discussion of these different meanings and how they arose give us a better route to understanding both historical and contemporary China. He puts forward his solution as an alternative to what he sees as writings that are too eager to deconstruct and perhaps dismiss the idea of China as a historical entity altogether. By offering a general scholarly overview of China, Ge's book begins to overcome the disjunction between American knowledge about China and Chinese understanding of the country--
- Language
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- eng
- chi
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 201 pages
- Contents
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- 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?
- Isbn
- 9780674737143
- Label
- What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history
- Title
- What is China?
- Title remainder
- territory, ethnicity, culture, and history
- Statement of responsibility
- Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill
- Language
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- eng
- chi
- eng
- Summary
- Chinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has undertaken the task of explaining China to foreigners. He examines the historical and cultural background of China's emergence as a major world power from a Chinese perspective. Ge argues that the meanings of China and Chinese culture regularly change and avoid a single definition, and that honest discussion of these different meanings and how they arose give us a better route to understanding both historical and contemporary China. He puts forward his solution as an alternative to what he sees as writings that are too eager to deconstruct and perhaps dismiss the idea of China as a historical entity altogether. By offering a general scholarly overview of China, Ge's book begins to overcome the disjunction between American knowledge about China and Chinese understanding of the country--
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- 1950-
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- Ge, Zhaoguang
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Chinese
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Hill, Michael
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- National characteristics, Chinese
- Ethnology
- Chinese
- China
- China
- China
- China
- Label
- What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history, Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- 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?
- Control code
- on1002830541
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xv, 201 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674737143
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002830541
- Label
- What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and history, Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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?
- Control code
- on1002830541
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xv, 201 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674737143
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002830541
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