Middle kingdom & empire of the rising sun
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford OUP 2016Description: 454pISBN: 9780195375664Subject(s): Japan-Forieign relation-ChinaDDC classification: 327.510 52Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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327.43009 KLU/A 30 April 1945 : | 327.5 105 491 CHI China, Pakistan and Russia: a dangerous axis | 327.5009041 INT International society in the early twentieth century Asia-Pacific : imperial rivalries, international organizations, and experts / | 327.510 52 DRE/M Middle kingdom & empire of the rising sun | 327.51 CAL/C China;the pessoptimist nation | 327.54 GUP/F Foreign policy of India , Vol.2 | 327.54 GUP/F.1 Foreign policy of india,vol.1 |
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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