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Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics

Journal of Asian studies, 2011, Vol.70 (4), p.1146-1148 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2011 Association for Asian Studies, Inc. ;Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 ;ISSN: 0021-9118 ;EISSN: 1752-0401 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0021911811001926 ;CODEN: JASNBR

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  • Title:
    Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics
  • Author: Waldron, Arthur
  • Subjects: Asian history ; CHINA ; Chinese ; Chinese history ; Chinese languages ; Confucianism ; Culture ; International relations ; Ming, Wang ; Political science ; Politics ; Power ; Realism ; War ; Zheng He
  • Is Part Of: Journal of Asian studies, 2011, Vol.70 (4), p.1146-1148
  • Description: Princeton University Press, 1995), but his approach is different. [...]he attempts to quantify Confucian influence by counting officials who were jinshi, finding that, for example, their numbers in the Song were greater by a factor of six or seven than in the Tang. [...]like the Harvard graduates of the ancient joke who never "read" books but rather only "reread" them, China rarely owns up to conquering new territories, but rather only "recovers" them. [...]today she is not "asserting" but "reasserting" her influence in the South China Sea. Realism, to a historian like myself, seems to exist at too high a level of abstraction to explain the sorts of specific events that Wang chronicles. [...]it cannot be tested.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0021-9118
    EISSN: 1752-0401
    DOI: 10.1017/S0021911811001926
    CODEN: JASNBR
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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