Harmony and War

Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics

Автор: Yuan-Kang Wang

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Издател: Columbia University Press

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Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensi...

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Автор

Yuan-Kang Wang

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2010

страници

328

EAN

9780231151405

ISBN

0231151403

Enbook ID

04558846

Издател

Columbia University Press

Теглоt

574

Размери

160 x 229 x 27

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Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. It practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally strong. In a path-breaking study traversing six centuries of Chinese history, Yuan-kang Wang resoundingly discredits this notion, recasting China as a practitioner of realpolitik and a ruthless purveyor of expansive grand strategies. Leaders of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) prized military force and shrewdly assessed the capabilities of China's adversaries. They adopted defensive strategies when their country was weak and pursued expansive goals, such as territorial acquisition, enemy destruction, and total military victory, when their country was strong. Despite the dominance of an antimilitarist Confucian culture, warfare was not uncommon in the bulk of Chinese history. Grounding his research in primary Chinese sources, Wang outlines a politics of power that are crucial to understanding China's strategies today, especially its policy of "peaceful development," which, he argues, the nation has adopted mainly because of its military, economic, and technological weakness in relation to the United States.

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