China and the Barbarians: Resisting the Western World Order

Henk Schulte Nordholt

doi:10.24415/9789400602892

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Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-278-3
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0289-2
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Language: English
Pages: 375
Product Type: Monograph

1. ‎Contents No access
2. ‎Note on Spelling No access
3. ‎Prologue No access
1. ‎‘Patriotic Education’ No access
2. ‎Takeover of the South China Sea No access
3. ‎Foundations of Nationalism No access
4. ‎The End of History? No access
5. ‎A New Model? No access
6. ‎The Past Determines the Present No access
7. ‎The Great Harmony No access
8. ‎A Realistic Check on my Romantic Vision No access
1. ‎The Riddle of Longevity No access
2. ‎No Nation-State No access
3. ‎Eternal China? No access
4. ‎The Open Empire No access
5. ‎Three Schools of Thought No access
1. ‎The Sun at its Zenith No access
2. ‎Expansionary Foreign Policy No access
3. ‎The Tribute System No access
4. ‎Chinese Civilisation as the Norm No access
5. ‎A New Sort of Barbarian No access
6. ‎Taiwan in Dutch Hands No access
7. ‎Restricting Foreign Trade No access
8. ‎The Macartney Mission No access
9. ‎The Dutch Trade Mission of 1795 No access
10. ‎The Sun Begins to Set No access
11. ‎The Four Indignities of the Century of Humiliation No access
12. ‎Downfall of the Empire No access
1. ‎The Three Principles of the People No access
2. ‎Kang Youwei No access
3. ‎Yan Fu No access
4. ‎The Country Acquires a Name of its Own No access
5. ‎The General Elections of 1912 No access
6. ‎Warlords No access
7. ‎May 4th Movement No access
8. ‎June 4th: Another May 4th Nipped in the Bud No access
9. ‎Establishing the Communist Party No access
10. ‎Break Between the Kuomintang and the Party No access
11. ‎United Front against the Japanese No access
12. ‎Re-Evaluating the Republican Period No access
13. ‎The People’s Republic as the Successor of the Republic? No access
14. ‎Who is the Heir of Sun Yatsen? No access
15. ‎The Unshakeable Position of Sun Yatsen No access
1. ‎The New Emperor of China No access
2. ‎Xi Jinping’s ‘Thought’ No access
3. ‎The End of Leadership by Consensus No access
4. ‎A New Mao? No access
5. ‎Blind Loyalty No access
6. ‎Flies and Tigers No access
7. ‎A Sacred Fervour No access
8. ‎The School of Cynics No access
9. ‎Red Aristocrats No access
10. ‎The Barrel of the Gun No access
11. ‎Commander-in-Chief No access
1. ‎Large-Scale Urbanisation No access
2. ‎What Separates State and Subject No access
3. ‎‘The State Is Not the Problem, But the Solution’ No access
4. ‎Does the Party Determine China’s Future… ? No access
5. ‎Or Do the People? No access
6. ‎No Tradition of Democracy No access
7. ‎What Binds the Nation? No access
8. ‎Marx in the People’s Republic No access
9. ‎Away with Marx and Mao? No access
10. ‎The Five ‘Dimensions’ of Liu Yunshan No access
11. ‎Confucianism as the New Connection? No access
12. ‎The New Technocrats No access
13. ‎Approval Abroad No access
14. ‎The Two-Faced Party No access
15. ‎‘Seven Things That Should Not Be Discussed’ No access
16. ‎Art behind Bars No access
17. ‎And the Internet in Chains No access
18. ‎A Market Economy? No access
19. ‎The ‘Rule of Law’ No access
20. ‎Consultative Democracy No access
1. ‎Liberalism Oppressed No access
2. ‎Is Democracy Alien to the Chinese? No access
3. ‎Democracy as the Benchmark No access
4. ‎Liu Xiaobo No access
5. ‎Charter 08 No access
6. ‎Liu Xiaobo’s Arrest No access
7. ‎Other Liberals No access
8. ‎The Oxford Consensus No access
9. ‎Modern Day Analects No access
10. ‎To the Left or the Right? No access
1. ‎Three Circles of Civilisation No access
2. ‎A Traumatised View of the World No access
3. ‎Deng: No Anti-Japanese Sentiment No access
4. ‎Unwelcome History Books No access
5. ‎The Yasukuni Shrine No access
6. ‎The Senkaku Islands No access
7. ‎The Past as a Stick to Beat the Present No access
1. ‎The Ideological Basis No access
2. ‎Foreign Affairs Serve Domestic Interests Only No access
3. ‎The Goal of Mao’s Foreign Policy No access
4. ‎Wars in Korea and India No access
5. ‎Indian Resentment No access
6. ‎The Break with the Soviet Union No access
7. ‎War on the Amur No access
8. ‎Relations Today: a Little Bear and a Big Panda No access
9. ‎A United Front with the Hegemon No access
10. ‎Nixon in Beijing No access
11. ‎Chinese-American Relations Today No access
12. ‎Deep Mutual Distrust No access
13. ‎Deng’s Foreign Policy No access
14. ‎A New Ideology No access
15. ‎‘Hide Brightness and Cherish Obscurity’ No access
16. ‎War with Vietnam No access
17. ‎Crisis in the Taiwan Strait No access
18. ‎New Strategic Thinking No access
19. ‎Revanchist Reaction No access
20. ‎Sovereignty as the Core Principle No access
1. ‎Nationalism Binds the Nation No access
2. ‎The 2008 Olympic Games No access
3. ‎No Intervention No access
4. ‎Key Maritime Interests No access
5. ‎‘Wherever China’s Interests Lead…’ No access
6. ‎Domestic Nationalism: Propaganda and Patriotic Projects No access
7. ‎Economic Power Serving Political Power No access
8. ‎State-Owned Businesses as Party Vehicles No access
9. ‎The Myth of Pacifism No access
10. ‎The ‘Peaceful’ Expeditions of Zheng He No access
11. ‎The Myth of the Yellow Race No access
12. ‎The Threat of Nationalism No access
1. ‎Democracy with Chinese Characteristics No access
2. ‎The School of Gradual Improvement No access
1. ‎The Ideal State in the West No access
2. ‎The Ideal State in China No access
3. ‎The Great Harmony No access
4. ‎A Confucianist State? No access
5. ‎East-West Synthesis? No access
6. ‎China as a Moral Paragon? No access
7. ‎A Sage King? No access
8. ‎Power to the People No access
9. ‎A New Harmony No access
1. ‎The Way of Democracy No access
2. ‎The Third Way No access
3. ‎One Belt, One Road No access
‎Epilogue No access Pages 309 - 310
‎Acknowledgements No access Pages 311 - 312
‎Chronological overview of dynasties in China No access Pages 313 - 314
‎Chairmen* and Party secretaries of the People’s Republic of China No access Pages 315 - 316
1. ‎Introduction No access
2. ‎Chapter 1 No access
3. ‎Chapter 2 No access
4. ‎Chapter 3 No access
5. ‎Chapter 4 No access
6. ‎Chapter 5 No access
7. ‎Chapter 6 No access
8. ‎Chapter 7 No access
9. ‎Chapter 8 No access
10. ‎Chapter 9 No access
11. ‎Chapter 10 No access
12. ‎Chapter 11 No access
13. ‎Chapter 12 No access
‎Works Consulted No access Pages 349 - 354
‎Illustration Credits No access Pages 355 - 356
‎Index of persons No access Pages 357 - 364