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China Among Equals
Morris Rossabi (Ed.)
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Description for China Among Equals
Paperback. Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century BC to the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Rossabi, Morris. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 32. Weight in Grams: 672.
Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century. China ruled out equality with any nation: foreign rulers and their envoys were treated as subordinates or inferiors, required to send periodic tribute embassies to the Chinese emperor. The Chinese court was otherwise uninterested in foreign lands. Its principal interests were to maintain peace with what it perceived to be barbarian neighbors and to coax or coerce them into admitting China's superiority and accepting the Chinese emperor as the ... Read more
Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century. China ruled out equality with any nation: foreign rulers and their envoys were treated as subordinates or inferiors, required to send periodic tribute embassies to the Chinese emperor. The Chinese court was otherwise uninterested in foreign lands. Its principal interests were to maintain peace with what it perceived to be barbarian neighbors and to coax or coerce them into admitting China's superiority and accepting the Chinese emperor as the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520045620
SKU
V9780520045620
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