From the time of China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a “weak state” dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a world that was increasingly being understood in harsh Darwinian terms. Aiming to better understand contemporary China’s self-image and identity, this volume traces both the emergence of the narrative of China’s alleged “national ruin” and the discursive construction of China as the “Sick Man of East Asia.”
| ISBN: | 9783593509020 |
| Publication date: | 2nd March 2021 |
| Author: | Sebastian Riebold |
| Publisher: | Campus Verlag |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 586 pages |
| Series: | Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes |
| Genres: |
Asian history |