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100 1  Brook, Timothy,|d1951-|eauthor,|enarrator. 
245 10 Great state :|bChina and the world|h[Hoopla electronic 
       resource] /|cTimothy Brook. 
250    Unabridged. 
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520    The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer's Hat 
       does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: 
       Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China's
       relationship with the world in this magnificent history 
       that brings together accounts from civil servants, horse 
       traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, 
       migrant workers, invaders, visionaries, and traitors-
       creating a multifaceted portrait of this highly 
       misunderstood nation. China is one of the oldest states in
       the world. It achieved its approximate current borders 
       with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the thirteenth 
       century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty 
       to the next, has maintained them for the eight centuries 
       since. China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, 
       the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism. But despite 
       the desires of some of the most powerful people in the 
       Great State through the ages, China has never been alone 
       in the world. It has had to contend with invaders as well 
       as foreign traders and imperialists. Its rulers for the 
       majority of the last eight centuries have not been 
       Chinese. China became a mega-state not by conquering 
       others, Timothy Cook contends, but rather by being 
       conquered by others and then claiming right of succession 
       to the empires of those Great States. What the Mongols and
       Manchu ruling families wrought, the Chinese ruling 
       families of the Ming, the Republic, and the People's 
       Republic, have perpetuated. Yet a contemporary Chinese 
       idea of a 'fatherland' that is, and always has been, 
       completely and naturally Chinese persists. Brook argues 
       that China, like everywhere, is the outcome of history, 
       and like every state, rests on its capacities to conquer 
       and suppress. In The Great State, Brook examines China's 
       relationship with the world at large for the first time, 
       from the Yuan through to the present, by following the 
       stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating 
       the spaces where China met, and continues to meet, the 
       world. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
651  0 China|xForeign relations. 
651  0 China|xHistory. 
700 1  Brook, Timothy. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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