Imagining a Postnational World

Hegemony and Space in Modern China
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32714-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 645 g

Reihe: Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective

This book analyzes the historical significance of rivaling concepts of world order in 20th century East Asia. Since the arrival of European imperialism in 19th century – coupled with its different schools of political philosophy and international law – China has struggled to combine ideas on national sovereignty, spatiality and hegemony in its quest of either imitating or replacing European norms of world order. By analyzing Chinese visions of regional and international order and comparing them with Japanese proposals of that era, this book discusses in detail the relationship of territoriality and political rule, discourses of amity and enmity, and finally the role of hegemoniality in the process of imagining a possible postnational world in 21st century East Asia and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matten, Marc Andre

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface & Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures xi
Introduction 1
1 Space, Territory, and National Sovereignty in Modern East Asia 13
2 Reconceptualizing World Order after the Tribute System 32
3 The Legal Principle of National Sovereignty in Modern East Asia 79
4 The Territoriality of National Sovereignty 112
5 Fighting the White Peril: Japan’s Turn to Spatiality 162
6 Pacifying the Hostis: China’s Return to Ecumenical Morality 225
7 Lessons from the Past: Visions of World Order Today 277
Conclusion 299
Bibliography 307
Index 357

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Andre Matten, Ph.D. (2007), is Associate Professor of Contemporary Chinese History at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He has published extensively on the issues of Chinese nationalism and national identity, including The Borders of Being Chinese—On the Creation of National Identity in 20th Century China (German, Harrassowitz, 2009) and Places of Memory in Modern China—History, Politics, and Identity (Brill, 2011/2013).