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008			180315s2018 mau ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dNT _dYDX _dEBLCP _dIDB _dJSTOR
020			_a9780674985001 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aDS735 _b.W438 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aGe, Zhaoguang, _d1950- _e1
245	1	0	_aWhat is China? : _bterritory, ethnicity, culture, and history / _cGe Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
520	0		_aChinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has undertaken the task of explaining China to foreigners. He examines the historical and cultural background of China's emergence as a major world power from a Chinese perspective. Ge argues that the meanings of China and Chinese culture regularly change and avoid a single definition, and that honest discussion of these different meanings and how they arose give us a better route to understanding both historical and contemporary China. He puts forward his solution as an alternative to what he sees as writings that are too eager to deconstruct and perhaps dismiss the idea of China as a historical entity altogether. By offering a general scholarly overview of China, Ge's book begins to overcome the disjunction between American knowledge about China and Chinese understanding of the country.-- _cProvided by publisher
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: On the historical formation of "China" and the dilemma of Chinese identity -- _tWorldviews: from "all-under-heaven" in ancient China to the "myriad states" in the modern world -- _tBorders: on "Chinese" territory -- _tEthnicity: including the "four barbarians" in "China"? -- _tHistory: Chinese culture from a long-term perspective -- _tPeripheries: how China, Korea, and Japan have understood one another since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- _tPractical questions: will cultural differences between China and the West lead to conflict?.
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650		0	_aNational characteristics, Chinese.
650		0	_aChinese _xAttitudes.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aHill, Michael _etrl
700	1		_q(Michael Gibbs),
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1713000&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell