Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate : Memories of Empire in a New Global Context.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and the Pronunciation of Chinese -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 A Memory of Empire: The New Past of Old China -- CHAPTER 2 The Yuan Dynasty and the Pax Mongolica -- CHAPTER 3 The Ming Dynasty and the Pax Sinica -- CHAPTER 4 The Qing Dynasty and the Pax Manjurica -- CHAPTER 5 The Proletarian Dynasty of Chairman Mao -- CHAPTER 6 The History of the World as China's Own -- CHAPTER 7 China's Continent and the World City -- CHAPTER 8 A Peaceful Rise and Memories of Violence -- CHAPTER 9 The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire -- CHAPTER 10 "The Chinese People Are a Heap of Loose Sand" -- CHAPTER 11 Rising China's Grand Design -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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