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- W2399779282 abstract "With the rise of China over the recent decades, both economic andgeopolitical, pundits have increasingly come to remind us that once upona time what we now call China was the centre of its world. The implicationinvariably is that just like the historical China was once a centre of globalgravity, its current trajectory may be expected to bring today’s Chinainexorably back into the centre of the global order from which it only brieflyabstained itself for a few recent centuries.When making such conjectures, we assume we safely know what Chinais and where it is. But what is this “China”, Zhongguo or Zhonghua, the“Middle Kingdom” or “Central Civilisation”, as it is famously called in itsnative version? It certainly has the claim to centrality in its very name. Yetthe name was emphatically not established as a geographic or ethnic labelfor a territorial state or a nation. Rather, it represented a bold normativeclaim, a universalist assertion of value. It resembles such lofty epithets as“the Land of the Free”, “the new Rome”, or “Zion” in that it is above allan aspirational title. Historically, the gravitational pull that has constituted what some have called “the Sinosphere” was due to this aspirational universalmoral claim more than it was the result of an actual geopolitical hegemony.Until the twentieth century and the arrival on the stage of that brave newinvention –the nation– neither territory nor ethnicity really defined “China”.A situated view from the neighbourhood may help to clarify this confusingsituation. Well embedded in the broader Sinosphere through a complexhistory of negotiating its relations to the succession of dynastic empires onthe mainland, the Japanese archipelago has long been the locus of discussionsabout the meaning and purpose of the Chinese claim to represent the “MiddleKingdom”. Indeed, in terms of statehood and asserted or wished culturalidentity, “Japan” has defined itself for most of its history by acknowledging,denying, emulating or arrogating that claim to centrality. We can understandmuch about what “China” has meant by mapping Japanese aspirations tobecome China." @default.
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- W2399779282 title "The Point of the Centre: Present and Past Discourses of China-hood / La cuestión del Centro: Discursos presentes y pasados de la Sinitud" @default.
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