Out of China
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Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one
of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and
looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers'
major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be
one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often
agonising process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th
century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a
brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a
now fantastically remote world: the corrupt, lurid modernity of
pre-War Shanghai, the often tiny patches of 'extra-territorial'
land controlled by European powers (one of which, unnoticed, had
mostly toppled into a river), the entrepôts of Hong Kong and Macao,
and the myriad means, through armed threats, technology and legal
chicanery, by which China was kept subservient. Today Chinese
nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past -
the quest for self-sufficiency, a determination both to assert
China's standing in the world and its outstanding territorial
claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack. History
matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers - and Out of China
explains why.
Výber kníh autorov
Penguin ,
Robert Bickers
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Penguin,
Robert Bickers
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Slovart
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Slovart
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