Contents
Prologue
Introduction
1 The Lofty Classical Order
2 The Century of Humiliation
3 A New Beginning
4 Xi Jinping Has a Dream
5 The Eternal Party
6 An Alternative to the Party?
7 The Experience of History: From Supremacy to Shame
8 Foreign Policy under Mao and Deng: From Rebellion to Harmony
9 The New Nationalism
10 The Party on a Dead-End Street
11 The Third Way
12 The World of the Great Harmony
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgements
Works Consulted
Index of Persons
Chinese Dynasties and Chairmen of the People’s Republic of China
Hendrik Schulte Nordholt is a sinologist. He started working in 1981 as a government official promoting economic relations between the Netherlands and China. In 1985 Schulte Nordholt set up the first Dutch bank (AMRO) in China, but in 1992 he decided to ‘jump into the sea’ and with two partners established the technology company Hofung. Schulte Nord.holt has lived in China for twenty years, and frequently speaks and publishes on China.
"In China and the Barbarians, Nordholt attempts to explain several
phenomena: how the history of China shapes the way Chinese policy
makers and intellectuals see the world, how the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) utilizes nationalism to shape public sentiment and its
policies, and whether the current authoritarian mode of governing
can continue. Drawing on the philosopher Tu Wei-ming, who sees
China as an ideological battleground between socialism,
Confucianism, and liberalism, Nordholt suggests that instead of
maintaining the current repressive system of governance or
following the Western liberal democratic order, China is most
likely to follow the "third way," which will draw on Confucianism
and be more receptive to the people's opinions."--Justin Wu
"Pacific Affairs"
"China and the Barbarians delves into China's development over the
centuries in the areas of philosophy, language, and nationalism in
an attempt to describe how the country has managed to maintain a
disparate path from that of countries looking to control and
assimilate it into the Western-centric world order."-- "The
Beijinger"
"It's a revelatory . . .book for general readers, but should also
be regarded as a must-have addition to the libraries of serious
Sinologists. . . . In 300 magisterial pages, Nordholdt sets out to
catalog the existential problems confronting 21st century China,
which he regards as a cultural idea, rather than a racial fact. . .
. To understand how the present system came to power, Nordholt
stresses the importance of patriotism in the creation of the new
China." -- "Asia Today International"
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