Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

by Robert Bickers

Book Overview

Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. China's new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by foreign powers, China looks out at the twenty-first century through the lens of the past. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers, and Out of China...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976878
• ISBN13: 9780674976870
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"