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"The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts of the past they would need to build a modern Chinese civilization. They are very conscious of the challenges coming from the United States, and are looking for ways and means to respond to a superpower that wants to preserve its dominant position in the international status quo. The book seeks to explain what China is doing and what its immediate and long-term interests are. It is not to defend or judge China. It does not employ theoretical frameworks that are not appropriate for describing Chinese conditions. It calls for understanding why history is particularly relevant to the Chinese state and most of its people. That way, we also see how the present and hopes for the future changes our perspectives of the past"--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Migration History: Some Patterns Revisited -- 2 Moving Europeans in the Globalizing World: Contemporary Migrations in a Historical-Comparative Perspective (1955–1994 v. 1870–1914) -- 3 Africa and Global Patterns of Migration -- 4 The Global Migration Crisis -- 5 Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Globalisation -- 6 Migrant Workers, Markets, and the Law -- 7 Of Migration, Great Cities, and Markets: Global Systems of Development -- 8 Uncertain Globalization: Refugee Movements in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 9 Travel, Migration, and Images of Social Life -- 10 Global Movements, Global Walls: Responses to Migration, 1885–1925 -- About the Book and Editor

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. Malaya in Malaysia -- 2. The Call for Malaysia -- 3. Malaya: Platform for Nation Building -- PART TWO. Locality in Flux -- 4. Remembering Goh Keng Swee -- 5. Before Nation: Chinese Peranakan -- 6. Singapore, Loyalty and Identity -- 7. Heritage with History -- PART THREE. Reframing Contexts -- 8. Reflections on Divisive Modernity -- 9. End of Empire -- 10. Family and Friends: China South and Southeast -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Half Title Page -- About the Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Preface -- 1. China in World History -- 2. Another Kind of Nation -- 3. Sovereign RelationshipsAre Not Absolute -- 4. A Revolution is a New Mandate -- 5. Modernity, the State and Civilization -- Appendix: TianxiaPerspectives from Outside of China -- Index

China and international order : some historical perspectives / Wang Gungwu -- Nationalism : dynamics of domestic transformation and international relations in China / Zheng Yongnian -- Redefining Chinese concept of sovereignty / Shan Wenhua -- Sovereignty in exercise : constructing political Chinese-ness in post-1997 Hong Kong / Tok Sow Keat -- Beyond symbiosis : changing civil-military relationship after Mao You Ji -- China reshapes the world economy / Deng Ziliang and Zheng Yongnian -- Understanding Chinese views of the emerging global order / Zhang Yongjin -- China joins global governance : the ten conundrums / Gerald Chan -- Contested international relations theory and China's constructing regional entitlement / Gordon Cheung -- Learning from the EU : China's changing outlook towards multilateralism / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- Northeast Asia regionalism and China : from an outside-in perspective / Jaewoo Choo -- China in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / Pan Guang -- China and ASEAN in the Asian regional integration / Sheng Lijun -- De-constructing cultural realism / Anthony A. Loh -- Chinese conception of soft power and its policy implications / Wang Hongying -- Toward a Chinese school of international relations? / Ren Xiao

Key Features:Presents to the readers an updated, well-informed, insightful, yet plainly written, jargon-free overview of major issues in contemporary ChinaAddresses significant and timely issues that interest a wide range of readersProvides "Economists" or "Foreign Affairs" analyses of contemporary China.

The book addresses questions such as: how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks? Where did political culture come in, especially when dealing with modern challenges of class, secularism and ethnicity? What part do external or regional pressures play when the nations are still being built? The authors have thought deeply about the issues of writing nation-building histories and have tried to put them not only in the perspective of Southeast Asian developments of the past five decades, but also the larger areas of historiography today

Wang Gungwu's study of the relationship between China and imperial Britain examines the possibilities in, as well as the limits of, their encounters. It takes the story beyond the clichés of opium, fighting, and diplomacy to probe more intimate encounters. Students will benefit from Wang Gungwu's fluent erudition

Chinese encounters with the British were more than merely those between two great powers. There was the larger canvas of the Empire and Commonwealth where the two peoples traded and interacted. In China, officials and merchants had to place the British beside other enterprising foreign peoples who were equally intent on influencing developments there. There were also Chinese who encountered the British in personal ways, and individual British who ventured into a 'vast unknown' with its deep history. Wang Gungwu's 2003 book, based on lectures linking China and the Chinese with imperial Britain, examines the possibilities in, as well as the limits of, their encounters. It takes the story beyond the clichés of opium, fighting, and the diplomatic skills needed to fend off rivals and enemies, and probes some areas of more intimate encounters, not least the beginnings of a wider English-speaking future