Discourses of Weakness in Modern China

Sebastian Riebold

ISBN 10: 3593509024 / ISBN 13: 9783593509020

Published by Campus Verlag, DE, 2021

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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.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourses of Weakness in Modern China
• Publisher: Campus Verlag, DE
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3593509024
• ISBN 13: 9783593509020
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.”

About the Author

Iwo Amelung is professor of Sinology at Goethe University Frankfurt.