... of colonization alternatives for altering the ethnic composition, which references the ineffective demographic transition of China. It explains that the concept of decolonization is not synonymous with a metonym for diversity. Bandung conference China absence of international condemnation of colonization...

... then reflects on how knowledge about this world changes the way we tell the history of the Silk Road and of diplomacy in China and the Eastern Eurasian world. Zooming in on a world centered on Dunhuang between 850 and 1000, it interrogates how should we assess the broader significance of the experiences...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the roles of fengshui in law during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the last of China's imperial dynasties. During the Qing dynasty, people across China submitted lawsuits about harm done to fengshui. Not all disputes involved such claims, but many...

...This chapter looks into sprinting, wherein states pursue nuclear weapons openly and deploy the aforementioned weapons as soon as possible. It lists cases from the Soviet Union, France, and China as examples of sprinters. Three countries openly pursued nuclear weapons for security matters, while...

... Era since the interventions might be interpreted as a form of colonialism. The chapter then discusses the consequences of pledging and financial control for state building by referencing the case of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration. It also tackles the FFC in China by emphasizing the Qing's...

...This chapter focuses on the writing of history in China. People who are aware of the multicultural character of China often write the history of China in the mode of comedy, of reconciliation. At the outset of the story, there are differences and conflicts, but in the end the differences...

... the anachronistic, post-nineteenth-century resonances. The chapter applies Smith's political thought on European economic development and China. commercial society four stages model Smith Adam corruption liberal capitalism Norman Jesse statement of standard model standard model conjectural history Stewart...

..., informal empire, and empire. The chapter elaborates on the types of order that consider balance, dominant hegemony, and voluntary hierarchy. It acknowledges China's rise to the post-World War II system's institutionalized hierarchy. Gilpin Robert Smith Adam Order rising states System China hierarchy...

... agendas, nativist racism, ethnic and religious groups, organized labor, and economic priorities that would channel and distort the long struggle for immigration reform and eventual passage of the Hart–Celler Act of 1965. With her Christian upbringing, American education, and proximity to power in China...

... a powerful impact on strategic thinking in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China about the long-term implications of the military defeat of the North Korean communist regime and the unification of the Korean peninsula under a government friendly to the United States. Korean War People’s...

... and the commoners. The first were, along with the emperor, the chief victims of China's entrance into modernity; the latter—now referred to in the modern parlance, as “the masses”—were supposed to be its major beneficiaries, and certainly gained a lot, though less than what might have been expected. empire Chinese...

... the period of Shidehara diplomacy and late Taisho democracy. It shows that Japanese leaders of all stripes, including Foreign Minister Shidehara Kijuro, were hardheaded realists who sought to maintain Japan's economic position in Manchuria and northern China even as they acted to reduce the risk of economic...

... are employing similar techniques in the global periphery to test America's resolve in the twenty-first century. Over the past few years, and with greater frequency and brazenness, regional powers opposed to the United States have been engaging in probing. Russia, Iran, and China in their respective regions have...

...This concluding chapter turns to developments in the bencao tradition after the fall of Qing China and considers the broader implications of this study on modern China. It asserts that while the making of the bencao pharmacopeia had long faded from the government-sponsored cultural stage, the power...

... powers played some part, including China. Yet it was overwhelmingly the United States, the United Kingdom, and their closest allies that played the central roles. Angkatan Bersendjata newspaper China Cold War Green Marshall September 30th Movement Indonesian Army North Vietnam Operation Rolling...

... to national security, Cold War tensions, and economic perils, the credibility of these rationales had faded. This is not to say that opponents of significant change were equally disadvantaged in other parts of the communist world. In the case of China, the chapter highlights, the regime managed to defend its...

...This introductory chapter examines India and China and the ways in which they have been transformed by Western imperial modernity. The onset of modernity is said to be located in the nineteenth century and is characterized politically by the emergence of the nation-state, economically...

... of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. The major analytical issue is the extent to which these products of Western scholarship and imagination have produced forms of religious categorization that have had an actual impact on religious belief and practice in India and China. The modern...

...This chapter looks at conversion to Christianity and the impact of missionary movements in India and China. Christian missionaries have played a major role in the creation of modern vocabularies and modern attitudes in India and China. Reform movements, but also popular resistance movements, derive...

...This chapter addresses the question of “popular religion” and the relation between religion and magic in India and China. The categories of popular belief, superstition, and magic have been used by modernizers in India and China to intervene in people's daily practices and remove obstacles...