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The new Chinese empire : and what it means for the United States / Ross Terrill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terrill, Ross.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--History--1976-.
- China.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 384 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this enlightening and rigorous book, a leading expert offers a brilliant analysis of how China will finally accept liberalism, and what that will mean for the United States. 12-page insert.
- Contents:
- The problem of China
- How the Chinese imperial state was formed
- We Are the world : an imperial tradition both defensive and superior
- "The king is dead: long live the king" : the post-dynastic quest for a new political order
- Red emperor
- Your mother is still your mother
- Beijing juggles the legacy of empire
- Maritime empire
- Steppe empire
- Foreign policy : imperial goals and modes
- Foreign policy : half-empire and half-modern nation
- Autocracy's last legs?
- Notes:
- "A Cornelia and Michael Bessie book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465084125
- OCLC:
- 50866940
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