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If the US tries to thwart China’s growth, China will surely want to return the compliment when it can do so. 1994

(Chow 1997; Duara 1995:4 and chap. i…

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a historic transition of intellectual and economic leadership from the old American elites to a prophetic new generation in what is often termed the Third World but is rapidly eclipsing America in free zones of the mind, from Guatemala City to Shanghai.

With regard to the contemporary utilization of tianxia, it seems rather odd to be applying an ancient system quite so mechanically to an entirely changed world.

The difficulty arises from America’s expressed desire to make China more democratic. China resents and resists this as an interference in its domestic matters. Outside powers cannot re-fashion China into their own image. Let us not forget that even China’s conquerors like the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries, and the Manchus in the 17th to 19

Times of transformation require ever greater scrutiny of what kind of government is relevant to communities so essentially redefining themselves.

Japan’s best investment is in the younger generation of potential leaders of China. The more Chinese students there are in Japan, especially the children of central and provincial leaders, the better the prospects for long-term understanding and cooperation between the two countries.

believe that these changes require us to revisit the paradigm of historical sociology deriving from the nineteenth century which essentially seeks to explain the rise of the West.