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050 00 $aDS721$b.T263 2018
082 00 $a951$223
100 1 $aTan, Chung,$d1929-$eauthor.
245 10 $aChina :$ba 5,000-year odyssey /$cTan Chung.
264 1 $aNew Delhi, India ;$aThousand Oaks, California :$bSAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axxi, 287 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aForeword / by Wang Gungwu -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Common Geographical Entity of China -- Chapter 2: The Chinese Common Political Entity -- Chapter 3: A Unified Empire Sans Imperialism -- Chapter 4: External Security and Internal Stability -- Chapter 5: The Prosperous Tang Dynasty and Its Golden Culture -- Chapter 6: The Glorious and Pathetic Song Dynasty -- Chapter 7: Civilization Highway Damaged But Extended -- Chapter 8: Manchu China and the Challenge of the Sea -- Chapter 9: The Awakened Lion Shaking China, Not the World -- Chapter 10: China Joins the Comity of the "Nation-State" World -- Conclusion.
520 $aIn this endearing book on China, Tan Chung distills tons of information about China's historical evolution and complex vicissitudes in a freewheeling style describing how the third longest river in the world, Yangtze River, and the fifth longest, Yellow River, carved out the contours of China, on the globe millions of years before the arrival of man-apes. From this geographical entity, there emerged a common civilization, political entity, and common entity of destiny within and around the valleys of these two civilization-forming rivers. The author advocates that China is a "civilization country" that has existed for more than two millennia but the nation-state world interrupted the Chinese odyssy for many centuries. Like the legendary phoenix rising from the ashes, China resumes its odyssey and also joins the comity of globalization leaving behind the "Thucydides Trap"--back cover.
651 0 $aChina$xCivilization.
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