Middle kingdom & empire of the rising sun
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TextPublication details: Oxford OUP 2016Description: 454pISBN: 9780195375664Subject(s): Japan-Forieign relation-ChinaDDC classification: 327.510 52
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the Chinese distinction between themselves as civilized and all others as barbarians was, they [the Japanese nativists] argued, absurd, given the reality that barbarians had several times conquered China and the barbarian leader was the anointed as the son of heaven. Who, then, should be considered barbarian? To nativists, the logical conclusion was the Japan had become the true Middle Kingdom. While one might reverse China’s past accomplishments, China had declined into an entity that was no longer worthy of emulation.
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