Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (Studies in Security and International Affairs) PDF
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Rising China and its PostmodeRn Fate This page intentionally left blank 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 This page intentionally left blank Rising China and its PostmodeRn Fate Memories of Empire in a New Global Context ChaRles hoRneR The University of Georgia Press | Athens and London © 2009 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in 10.5/13.5 Adobe Caslon Pro by BookComp, Inc. Printed and bound by Sheridan Books The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Printed in the United States of America 13 12 11 10 09 c 5 4 3 2 1 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 This page intentionally left blank 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
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