The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power by Wang, Fei-Ling

The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781438467498)

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The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power by Wang, Fei-Ling

The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power

$95.00
The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power by Wang, Fei-Ling

The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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What does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rereading of Chinese longue dur e history, Fei-Ling Wang provides a simple but powerful framework for understanding the nature of persistent and rising Chinese power and its implications for the current global order. He argues that the Chinese ideation and tradition of political governance and world order--the China Order--is based on an imperial state of Confucian-Legalism as historically exemplified by the Qin-Han polity. Claiming a Mandate of Heaven to unify and govern the whole known world or tianxia (all under heaven), the China Order dominated Eastern Eurasia as a world empire for more than two millennia, until the late nineteenth century. Since 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a reincarnated Qin-Han polity without the traditional China Order, finding itself stuck in the endless struggle against the current world order and the ever-changing Chinese society for its regime survival and security. Wang also offers new discoveries and assessments about the true golden eras of Chinese civilization, explains the great East-West divergence between China and Europe, and analyzes the China Dream that drives much of current Chinese foreign policy.

Author: Fei-Ling Wang
ISBN-10: 1438467494
ISBN-13: 9781438467498
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2017
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

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Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His books include Organizing through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System and China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (coedited with Yong Deng).

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