East Asia Before the West 在线电子书 图书标签: 国际关系 海外中国研究 国际政治 东亚安全 东亚史
发表于2024-12-23
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David C. Kang is professor of international relations and business and director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. A regular consultant for both multinational corporations and U.S. government agencies, his books include China Rising, Crony Capitalism, and Nuclear North Korea: A Debate in Engagement Strategies.
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has stabilized.
Focusing on the role of the "tribute system" in maintaining stability in East Asia and in fostering diplomatic and commercial exchange, Kang contrasts this history against the example of Europe and the East Asian states' skirmishes with nomadic peoples to the north and west. Although China has been the unquestioned hegemon in the region, with other political units always considered secondary, the tributary order entailed military, cultural, and economic dimensions that afforded its participants immense latitude. Europe's "Westphalian" system, on the other hand, was based on formal equality among states and balance-of-power politics, resulting in incessant interstate conflict.
Scholars tend to view Europe's experience as universal, but Kang upends this tradition, emphasizing East Asia's formal hierarchy as an international system with its own history and character. This approach not only recasts our understanding of East Asian relations but also defines a model that applies to other hegemonies outside the European order.
Eurocentrism is prevalent in developing theories of international relations, most notably exemplified by the central concept of sovereignty in the Westphalian system, which is labeled with equality in interstate relations. David Kang challenges this bias by...
评分观点还是挺鲜明的。感觉研究东亚各国关系史最大的麻烦就是是否能找出一个完全覆盖住所有时期所有事例的框架,也就是说,总是有例外出现。不过历史本身就是流动的,朝贡体制就像一件外衣,不可能时时都符合体型。 个人比较赞同东亚各国(尤其是网络上)有关历史文化的争论与冲突...
评分Eurocentrism is prevalent in developing theories of international relations, most notably exemplified by the central concept of sovereignty in the Westphalian system, which is labeled with equality in interstate relations. David Kang challenges this bias by...
评分Eurocentrism is prevalent in developing theories of international relations, most notably exemplified by the central concept of sovereignty in the Westphalian system, which is labeled with equality in interstate relations. David Kang challenges this bias by...
评分观点还是挺鲜明的。感觉研究东亚各国关系史最大的麻烦就是是否能找出一个完全覆盖住所有时期所有事例的框架,也就是说,总是有例外出现。不过历史本身就是流动的,朝贡体制就像一件外衣,不可能时时都符合体型。 个人比较赞同东亚各国(尤其是网络上)有关历史文化的争论与冲突...
East Asia Before the West 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024