Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (Studies in Security and International Affairs)

241 Pages·2009·1.17 MB·English

by  Charles Horner

Rising China and its PostmodeRn Fate
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SERIES EDITORS
Gary K. Bertsch
University Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the
Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia
Howard J. Wiarda
Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Head of the
Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia
SERIES ADVISORY BOARD
Pauline H. Baker
The Fund for Peace
Eliot Cohen
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
University
Eric Einhorn
Center for Public Policy and Administration, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
John J. Hamre
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
Josef Joffe
Hoover Institution, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Lawrence J. Korb
Center for American Progress
William J. Long
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of
Technology
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Scott D. Sagan
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Lawrence Scheinman
Monterey Institute of International Studies, CNS-WDC
David Shambaugh
The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Jessica Stern
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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Rising China and its
PostmodeRn Fate
Memories of Empire in a
New Global Context
ChaRles hoRneR
The University of Georgia Press | Athens and London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Horner, Charles, 1943–
Rising China and its postmodern fate : memories of empire
in a new global context / Charles Horner.
p. cm. — (Studies in security and international
affairs)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-8203-3334-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-8203-3334-4 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. China—Relations—Foreign countries. 2. China—
History—Yuan dynasty, 1260–1368—Historiography.
3. China—History—Ming dynasty, 1368–1644—
Historiography. 4. China—History—Qing dynasty, 1644–
1912—Historiography. 5. Historiography—China. I. Title.
ds779.27.h67 2009
951.0072—dc22 2008049646
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
ISBN for this digital edition: ISBN 978-0-8203-3588-9
for my granddaughter
Catherine Bayer Horner
and my grandsons
Charles Simons Horner and Thomas Morgan Horner
children of the twenty-first century
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Romanization and the Pronunciation of Chinese xiii
Prologue 1
ChAPTEr 1
A Memory of Empire: The New Past of Old China 15
ChAPTEr 2
The Yuan Dynasty and the Pax Mongolica 22
ChAPTEr 3
The Ming Dynasty and the Pax Sinica 34
ChAPTEr 4
The Qing Dynasty and the Pax Manjurica 54
ChAPTEr 5
The Proletarian Dynasty of Chairman Mao 85
ChAPTEr 6
The History of the World as China’s Own 99
ChAPTEr 7
China’s Continent and the World City 109
ChAPTEr 8
A Peaceful Rise and Memories of Violence 145
ChAPTEr 9
The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire 157
ChAPTEr 10
“The Chinese People Are a Heap of Loose Sand” 166