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Chinese Hegemony Chinese Hegemony grand strategy and international institutions in east asian history Feng Zhang Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2015 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zhang, Feng, 1980– author. Chinese hegemony : grand strategy and international institutions in East Asian history / Feng Zhang. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8047-9389-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. China—Foreign relations—East Asia. 2. East Asia—Foreign relations— China. 3. China—History—Ming dynasty, 1368–1644. 4. Hegemony—China— History. 5. Hegemony—East Asia—History. I. Title. ds740.61.z53 2015 327.5105—dc23 2014041549 isbn 978-0-8047-9504-3 (electronic) Typeset by Newgen in 11/14 Garamond To my wife Shu Man, for all your love and sacrifice, and to our daughter, Zhang Han, for the faith we have in you Contents List of Illustrations ix Notes on Transliterations xi Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xv 1 Introduction 1 2 A Relational Theory of Grand Strategy 20 3 Sino-Korean Relations 47 4 Sino-Japanese Relations 85 5 Sino-Mongol Relations 119 6 Fundamental Institutions of Chinese Hegemony 153 7 The Value of Relationalism 174 Appendix I Major Periods in Ancient and Imperial China 193 Appendix II Translation of Key Chinese Terms and Expressions 195 Notes 199 References 221 Index 249 Illustrations figures 1.1 Comparing concentrations of material capability 14 6.1 A relational framework of the constitutional structure of international society 158 tables 1.1 Population and gross domestic product of China, East Asia, and the world around 1500 13 2.1 Logics of action in Confucian relationalism 30 2.2 Relational international structure in traditional East Asia 31 2.3 Relational grand strategies 37 3.1 Evolution of Chinese strategies toward Korea 81 3.2 Evolution of Korean strategies toward China 82 4.1 Evolution of Chinese strategies toward Japan 115 4.2 Evolution of Japanese strategies toward China 116 5.1 Evolution of Chinese strategies toward the Mongols 150 5.2 Evolution of Mongol strategies toward China 151
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