Ho-Fung Hung: The China Question

Cover: 9781009559775 | The China Question | Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear | Hung | Buch

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Beschreibung

For centuries, Western scholars portrayed China either as a land of superior morality, economy, and governance or as a formidable country of pagans that posed a global threat to Western values. Idealized images of China were used to shame rulers for their incompetence, while China was demonized as an external threat to cover up domestic political failures. In the twentieth century, the geopolitics of global capitalism have facilitated more nuanced perspectives, but the diversifying of knowledge about China is far from complete. In this thought-provoking study, Ho-fung Hung finds that both Western elites and China's authoritarian regime today continue to promote many Orientalist stereotypes to advance their economic interests and political projects. He shows how big-picture historical, social, and economic changes are inextricably linked to fluctuations in the realm of ideas. Only open debate can overcome extremes of fantasy and fear.

Über den Autor

Ho-fung Hung is Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction: Orientalism in the longue durée; Part I. Catholic Scholarship: 1. From Pax Mongolica to the long sixteenth century; 2. The seventeenth-century crisis and the rise of Sinophilia; Part II. Enlightenment Philosophy: 3. Early Enlightenment Sinophilia; 4. Late Enlightenment Sinophobia; Part III. Institutionalized Orientalism: 5. Romantic Sinology after the French Revolution; 6. Scientific-racist Sinology in the age of empire; Part IV. Cold War Area Studies: 7. From Sinology to China Studies; 8. The 'Asiatic mode of production' myth; Part V. Self-Orientalism: 9. Self-orientalizing nation building; 10. Contested Confucianism; Conclusion: de-orientalizing triumph, re-orientalizing perils.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781009559775
ISBN-10:	100955977X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hung, Ho-Fung
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	215 x 146 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Ho-Fung Hung
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.02.2026
Gewicht:	0,538 kg