Format:
1 Online-Ressource (339 pages)
ISBN:
9789811210792
Series Statement:
Eai Series On East Asia
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Approaches to History and Domain Crossings of a Pioneering Scholar: Wang Gungwu and His Scholarship -- Introduction -- History as his Academic Discipline Home-Base -- Spatial Crossing: Geographical Straddling between inside and outside of China -- Temporal Crossing: From the Ancient Past to the Contemporary -- Inter-Disciplinary Crossing: Beyond History, into the Social Sciences -- Intellectual Crossing: From the Academia to Public Activism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Southeast Asian-ness of a China Scholar -- First Contact -- Wang Gungwu the Malaysian -- The End of the Springtime -- At the Australian National University (ANU) -- Studying the Nanyang -- Conclusion: A Model for Our Times -- Chapter 3 History Meets Policy in the Age of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping -- Introduction -- China and World Order -- Avoiding the Thucydides Trap -- Overseas Chinese and the Great Chinese Rejuvenation -- Going Forward -- Chapter 4 Globalisation and the Chineseness of the Chinese State -- (Un)changing Nature of the Chinese State -- Defining Chineseness -- The Confucian state and Western state products -- The Three Movements Compared -- Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement -- Mao Zedong and the "Learning from Lei Feng" movement -- Jiang Zemin and the "Rule by Virtue" movement -- Chineseness and Democracy -- Nationalism versus democracy -- Liberalisation versus democratisation -- Capitalism versus democracy -- Chapter 5 "Chineseness" in History Textbooks: The Narrative on Early China -- Historical Textbooks Discussed -- Research Methodology -- Centre and Periphery -- Unification and Separation -- Myths and Recorded History -- Analysis and Discussion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Logic of Political Reform in China: 1978-2018 -- Introduction.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811210785
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chineseness and modernity in a changing China New Jersey : World Scientific, 2020 ISBN 9789811210785
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
;
Modernität
;
Geschichte
