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Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad (Hardcover, 2012)

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Authors : Westad, Odd Arne. Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750. Title : Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750. Binding : hardcover. Product Category : Books. Clean copy in good condition.

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Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China s course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People s Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country s worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda. Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the world s largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one and a half billion, and established itself as the world s technological powerhouse. Meanwhile, some especially its neighbours are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will. A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices and fear a loss of identity to commercial forces and foreign influences. So, will China s attraction to world society dwindle, or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric inte