China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century
John Keane andBaogang He
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2024
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9780197629147
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9780197629116
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China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century
John Keane andBaogang He
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Keane, John, and Baogang He, 'Resilience, Resistance', China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century (2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197629116.003.0002, accessed 7 June 2024.
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Abstract
Empires are typically felled by their own arrogance, which is why their defiance of time by biding their time ultimately depends on their ability to learn from their mistakes, to change course when circ*mstances grow threatening, to know when to back down, and, not to be underestimated, to hide their arrogance by staying close to the ground when strong winds of doubt and criticism blow their way. The galaxy empire is similarly burdened by the functional requirements of public legitimacy. At home and abroad, its rulers are confronted by the fact that since power and authority are not the same thing, getting their way in the world—securing business contracts, winning support of member states within cross-border organizations, participating in joint military exercises, dealing with the United States—involves persuading others that ‘the rise of China’ and Chinese ways of wielding power are on balance a ‘win-win’ gift to the world. Striking is the way the galaxy empire isn’t framed by a single dominant ideology, a comprehensive story about its past, present, and future. There is something paradoxical and peculiar about the empire: its mixing and stirring of different and sometimes incompatible sets of political symbols.
Keywords: Edward Gibbon, rise and fall empire, Frantz Fanon, ideology, Ottoman Empire, China Radio International, fascism, Victor Klemperer, bamboozling, Yu Hua
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International Relations
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