Sinicization and the rise of China : civilizational processes beyond East and West
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Sinicization and the rise of China : civilizational processes beyond East and West
Routledge, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-279) and index
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Description
China's rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China's likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday politics and common in policy and academic writings. This book's emphasis on Sinicization as a specific instance of civilizational processes counters political and intellectual shortcuts and corrects the mistakes to which they often lead. Sinicization illustrates that like other civilizations China has always been open to variegated social and political processes that have brought together many different kinds of peoples adhering to very different kinds of practices. This book tries to avoid the reifications and celebrations that mark much of the contemporary public debate about China's rise. It highlights instead complex processes and political practices bridging East and West that avoid easy shortcuts. The analytical perspectives of this book are laid out in Katzenstein's opening and concluding chapters. They are explored in six outstanding case studies, written by widely known authors, which over questions of security, political economy and culture.
Featuring an exceptional line-up and representing a diversity of theoretical views within one integrative perspective, this work will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, sociology and political science.
Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Table of Contents
1 China's Rise: Rupture, Return, or Recombination? Peter J. Katzenstein Part 1 2. Reimagining the Frontier: Patterns of Sinicization and the Emergence of New Thinking about China's Territorial Periphery Allen Carlson 3. One China, Two Worlds: Taiwan and China's Quest for Identity and Security Xu Xin Part 2 4. Compressed Development, Flexible Practices, and Multiple Traditions in China's Rise Tianbiao Zhu 5. The Rise of China and Its Implications for East Asia Takashi Shiraishi Part 3 6. Cultural Sinicization in Four Diasporic Lives Chih-yu Shih 7. Becoming "Chinese" in Southeast Asia Caroline S. Hau Part 4 8. Sinicization in Comparative Perspective Peter J. Katzenstein
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