China's Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination

by Ji-Young Lee

Many have viewed the tribute system as China's tool for projecting its power and influence in East Asia, treating other actors as passive recipients of Chinese domination. China's Hegemony sheds new light on this system and shows that the international order of Asia's past was not as Sinocentric as conventional wisdom suggests. Instead, throughout the early modern period, Chinese hegemony was accepted, defied, and challenged by its East...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023117974X
• ISBN13: 9780231179744
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher