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BL
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636115
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Ford, Christopher A.,1967-
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| Title & Author
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The mind of empire : : China's history and modern foreign relations /\ Christopher A. Ford
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| Publication Statement
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Lexington, Ky :: University Press of Kentucky,, c2010
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| Series Statement
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Asia in the new millennium
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| Page. NO
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xii, 380 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780813192635 (acid-free paper)
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: 0813192633 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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An emergent China and the weight of history -- History lessons -- Confucian conceptions of order -- Power and order in other Chinese traditions -- Western assumptions about international order -- Sinic universalism in theory and practice -- The prehistory of foreign engagement -- Engagement and status conflict -- Through formal equality to inferiority -- China's loss of its dependencies -- Imperial denouement -- Intellectual ferment in the Nationalist era -- Mao and the Middle Kingdom -- China and the foreign other -- Conceptual currents -- China imagines its world-- and its future
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Exceptionalism-- China-- History
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China, Foreign relations, History
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China, Foreign relations, Philosophy
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| Dewey Classification
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327.51
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| LC Classification
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DS740.4.F649 2010
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