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Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750-Odd Arne Westad,

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Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750-Odd Arne Westad,
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9781847921970

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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 inte

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Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9781847921970
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Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750
Publication Year
2012
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Author
Odd Arne Westad
Format
Hardcover

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240 mm
Item Weight
968 g
Item Width
162 mm

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Odd Arne Westad

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