"This innovative book introduces China on its own terms by explaining ten key concepts that frame the way most Chinese people think about the world. Posing four questions that Westerners routinely ask abut China, the authors respond using these ten Chinese key words. Not surpris…
In this innovative book Jerusha McCormack and John G. Blair introduce China on its own terms. By explaining ten key concepts that frame the way most Chinese people think about the world, they compare these terms - which don't translate readily into English - with the ways most o…
The contents of this book cover national identity, nationalism the state, imagining Taiwan, imagining China, imagining a hybrid of federation andconfederation, obstacles to integration, and much more.
Hao Zhidong has provided essential background on the types of thinking that could create a unified island-mainland polity. Do the politicians in Beijing and Taipei want one enough to make the symbolic sacrifices that would be needed to bring their citizens peace with prosperity?…
The contents of this book cover national identity, nationalism the state, imagining Taiwan, imagining China, imagining a hybrid of federation and confederation, obstacles to integration, and much more.
Lee (history and Asian studies, City College of New York) offers a survey and critique of the social, institutional, and intellectual aspects of traditional Chinese education. He describes the development of schools and the examination system, the interaction between state, soci…