China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order

China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order
The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts of the past they would need to build a modern Chinese civilization. They are very conscious of the challenges coming from the United States, and are looking for ways and means to respond to a superpower that wants to preserve its dominant position in the international status quo.

The book seeks to explain what China is doing and what its immediate and long-term interests are. It is not to defend or judge China. It does not employ theoretical frameworks that are not appropriate for describing Chinese conditions. It calls for understanding why history is particularly relevant to the Chinese state and most of its people. That way, we also see how the present and hopes for the future changes our perspectives of the past.

Author/Editor

Gungwu Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Co.

ISBN

978-981-120-360-2

Published

2019

Specialisation

Humanities

Theme

International Relations and Politics
History

Region

East Asia
China