TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dreyer, June Teufel
TI  - Middle kingdom & empire of the rising sun
SN  - 9780195375664
U1  - 327.510 52 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - OUP
KW  - Japan-Forieign relation-China
N1  -  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
ER  -