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11207_9789813278127_tp.indd 1 7/6/19 10:13 AM b2530 International Strategic Relations and China’s National Security: World at the Crossroads TTTThhhhiiiissss ppppaaaaggggeeee iiiinnnntttteeeennnnttttiiiioooonnnnaaaallllllllyyyy lllleeeefffftttt bbbbllllaaaannnnkkkk b2530_FM.indd 6 01-Sep-16 11:03:06 AM 11207_9789813278127_tp.indd 2 7/6/19 10:13 AM Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE Library of Congress Control Number: 2018050995 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. CHINA RECONNECTS Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order Copyright © 2019 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 978-981-3278-12-7 ISBN 978-981-120-360-2 (pbk) For any available supplementary material, please visit https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/11207#t=suppl Desk Editor: Lixi Dong Typeset by Stallion Press Email: [email protected] Printed in Singapore Lixi - 11207 - China Reconnects.indd 1 04-06-19 2:34:55 PM “9x6” b3504 China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order 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. b3504_FM.indd 5 07-Jun-19 11:32:00 AM b2530 International Strategic Relations and China’s National Security: World at the Crossroads TTTThhhhiiiissss ppppaaaaggggeeee iiiinnnntttteeeennnnttttiiiioooonnnnaaaallllllllyyyy lllleeeefffftttt bbbbllllaaaannnnkkkk b2530_FM.indd 6 01-Sep-16 11:03:06 AM “9x6” b3504 China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order 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). vii b3504_FM.indd 7 07-Jun-19 11:32:00 AM b2530 International Strategic Relations and China’s National Security: World at the Crossroads TTTThhhhiiiissss ppppaaaaggggeeee iiiinnnntttteeeennnnttttiiiioooonnnnaaaallllllllyyyy lllleeeefffftttt bbbbllllaaaannnnkkkk b2530_FM.indd 6 01-Sep-16 11:03:06 AM “9x6” b3504 China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order 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 ix b3504_FM.indd 9 07-Jun-19 11:32:00 AM