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The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. David Martin Jones

    1. School of Government, University of Tasmania, Australia

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: The Bewilderment of Names and Images: East Asia in Western Social and Political Thought

    • David Martin Jones
    Pages 1-13

  3. East Asia in the Early Modern European Imagination

    • David Martin Jones
    Pages 14-36

  4. Ambassadors, Economists and Oriental Despots: the Early Nineteenth Century Understanding of China

    • David Martin Jones
    Pages 37-66

  5. Nineteenth Century Progress and Arrested Civilizations

    • David Martin Jones
    Pages 67-98

  6. Peculiar Nation: Sinology and the Social Sciences 1890–1949

    • David Martin Jones
    Pages 99-144

  7. Awakening, Arising, Developing and Deconstructing: China’s Mutable Modernization in Contemporary Social and Political Science

    • David Martin Jones
    Pages 145-203

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 204-238
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About this book

David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the knowledge claims of European and North American social and political thought as it evolved from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

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  • School of Government, University of Tasmania, Australia

    David Martin Jones

About the author

DAVID MARTIN JONES is Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of Tasmania. He is author of Political Development in Pacific Asia and co-author of Toward Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia.

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