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Libro 6 di 10: Schwächediskurse und Ressourcenregime|Discourses of Weakness & Resource Regimes

Riebold, Sebastian

 
9783593509020: Discourses of Weakness in Modern China: Historical Diagnoses of the »sick Man of East Asia«: 2

Sinossi

In the late nineteenth century, a conviction that China was somehow weaker than other political states in Asia and the West spread across the nation. Responses to this dispiriting notion manifested themselves in cultural and political forms, affecting such disparate arenas as popular writing and national resource mobilization. This book shows how, more than a century later, modern China has yet to fully shake the idea of weakness, arguing that the country&;s Communist leadership relies on this trope to shore up their popularity when they position themselves as the only defense against national humiliation.

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Iwo Amelung is professor of Sinology at Goethe University Frankfurt. Sebastian Riebold is research assistant at DFG Collaborative Research Center 1095.

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