China reconnects: joining a deep-rooted past to a new world order

206 Pages·2019·6.998 MB·English

by  Wang, Gungwu

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CHINA RECONNECTS
Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order
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On the occasion of East Asian Institute’s 20th Anniversary,
I dedicate the book to my EAI colleagues and friends.
I thank all of them, past and present,
for 22 years of friendship
and for the learning we shared together.
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About the Author
Wang Gungwu is University Professor at the National University of
Singapore and Professor Emeritus of the Australian National University.
He is Foreign Honorary Member of the History Division of the
American Academy of Arts and Science and former President of
the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was vice-chancellor of
the University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1995.
His recent books include Renewal: The Chinese State and the New
Global History (2013); The Eurasian Core and Its Edges (2015); Nanyang:
Essays on Heritage (2018); and Home is Not Here (2018).
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Contents
About the Author vii
Acknowledgments xi
Studying China: History in the Contemporary xiii
Part One China Dream 1
Chapter I Fall and Rise: A Maritime Perspective 3
I. Nation in Empires 5
II. Imperialist Law 8
III. Turning to the Sea 11
IV. ASEAN 15
Chapter II Behind the Dream 21
I. Learn from the Past 24
II. The Generation after the Reforms 27
III. An Alternative Path 31
IV. Not the Old Dream 34
Chapter III Navigating a Divisive Heritage 39
I. Party-State 40
 (i) The tianzi Syndrome 41
(ii) After Confucian Orthodoxy 45
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