In this Book
- Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
- Series: Studies in Security and International Affairs
The capstone of modern China was the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 and its rejection of Confucianism, capitalism, and modernity. Yet today's rising China retains few vestiges of what Mao wrought. What then, Horner asks, is post-Mao, postmodern China? Where did it come from? How did it get here? Where is it going?
Contemporary views of the great periods in Chinese history are having a significant influence on the development of rising China's national strategy, says Horner. He looks at the revival of interest in, and changing interpretations of, three dynasties--the Yuan (1272-1368), the Ming (1368-1644), and the Qing (1644-1912)--that, together with the People's Republic of China, provide examples of great power success.
The future of every major country is now connected to China's, and this book explains how China, now seeing itself as the complex and thriving result of the old and the new, is poised to change the world.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- CHAPTER 11 Rising China's Grand Design
- pp. 183-191
- Bibliography
- pp. 207-214