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From the time of China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a “weak state” dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a world that was increasingly being understood in harsh Darwinian terms. Aiming to better understand contemporary China’s self-image and identity, this volume traces both the emergence of the narrative of China’s alleged “national ruin” and the discursive construction of China as the “Sick Man of East Asia.”

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China: Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia": Volume 1

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From the time of China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was... Read more

    Publisher: Campus Verlag
    Publication Date: 02/03/2021
    ISBN13: 9783593509020, 978-3593509020
    ISBN10: 3593509024

    Number of Pages: 586

    Non Fiction , History

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    From the time of China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a “weak state” dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a world that was increasingly being understood in harsh Darwinian terms. Aiming to better understand contemporary China’s self-image and identity, this volume traces both the emergence of the narrative of China’s alleged “national ruin” and the discursive construction of China as the “Sick Man of East Asia.”

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