The New Chinese Empire: Bejing's Political Dilemma And What It Means For The United States
The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States by Ross Terrill is a nonfiction work that traces history and social structures.
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The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States remains a work that continues to attract readers.
The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States is an award-winning work by Ross Terrill that can be read through the lens of history and society.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Published
- 2003-03-25
- Pages
- 400 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 3.81 x 34.29 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780465084128
- ISBN-10
- 0465084125
- Price
- 7143 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Politics & Government/International & World Politics/Asian
Some observers expect China to become an economic superpower. Others expect it to fragment into pieces. Is China nationalistic and on the march, or is it a stumbling Communist dinosaur? Is it already a billion-citizen member of the global village? Is it, as the Clinton administration claimed, a "strategic partner" of the U.S.?Ross Terrill addresses the question upon which all these others depend: Is the People's Republic of China, whose polity is a hybrid of Chinese tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire? Since the collapse of three thousand years of Confucian monarchy in 1911, China has neither established a successful political system nor adjusted to being a nation state. Today it stands as the most contradictory of major powers, hovering between an unsustainable tradition and a yet-to-be-born political form that would support its new society and economy. Hanging in the balance are the prospect for freedom within China (for both Chinese and non-Chinese citizens of the People's Republic), the future of America's relations with China, and the security of China's neighbors.Drawing upon Terrill's long experience studying China as well as upon new research, this enlightening and rigorous book will be a must-read for everyone who has a stake in the future of the global world order.
Ross Terrill is an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. He has written several books on China, including Mao: A Biography , which has been translated into seven languages, Madame Mao , and China in our Time . He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Reviews
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Superb Review of China's Government's Perceptions
Mr. Terrill, the Harvard scholar who is both the widely acclaimed biographer of Mao and his wife, the best-selling portrayer of China in his "800,000" and the writer of the fascinating "China In Our Time". He has now written a swiftly readable yet authoritative book that provides vivid documentation to support its thesis that the Chinese government's view of its own internal empire over non-Han peoples (Tibet, the Uighurs of Turkestan, the Mongolians of Inner Mongolia) and exertion of its authority over the world outside - are of one piece - and entirely consistent with past Chinese empires. The book is wonderfully instructive to American policymakers. It documents the Chinese government's ability (through its pretension to worldwide authority, its soaring military strength and its manipulation of the news - and therefore attitudes - for home consumption) to put western governments off balance in order to project its ethnocentric view of the world. The Cinese government is succeeding wildly in making its view of the world relative to the "Middle Kingdom" a reality. Terrill's command of Chinese history is convicing. His recitation of the very different views by the Communist Party (before and after taking power) on the separate nationhood of Tibet, Mongolia, Turkestan Taiwan, was new to me. Terrill's account of how the Chinese control their inner empire through ethnic cleaning - on a scale undreamt by Slobodan Milosevic - is, again, fascinating. The book gives a far greater sense of the unreality of any "one China" status for Taiwan -- which was not part of China until 1884 - and then for a mere eleven years - and then for a mere four years in the 20th Century when the Kuomintang govened China. Terrill convincingly shows that "there IS no Taiwan issue" - merely the desire by the Chinese govenment to seize it - a desire similar to its expressed long-term intentions to take Korea and Indochina because at one time in the last several thousand years, they too were subject to China's control. Mr. Terrill's thesis is so well-documnted that those reviewers here who criticize the book seem to do so out of some misplaced emotion - Terrill has written a book about the Chinese government - not those of other countries past or present. I highly recommend the book - you'll learn much and it's wonderfully written.
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