Full Description
Considering the important impact of Asian cultures on international relations, we conducted a multifaceted analysis and authentic summary of the Asian experiences and patterns of dealing with foreign relations from an Asian insider's perspective, aiming to find out where the diverging or converging diplomatic ways of the West and the East came from and what the positive diplomatic values and practices originated from Asian traditions are.Focusing on China, volume one thoroughly analyses the nature, political culture and mechanism of the tribute system from ancient time to the modern era within and beyond China. Volume two studies the culture and diplomacy of various individual Asian nations except for China, both in general and in particular cases, with an interdisciplinary approach., , , , . , , ., , , .
Contents
ContentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Asian Experiences Seen from Asian PerspectivesC. X. George WeiPart 1: The Tribute System within the Domestic Context: Essence, Paradigm and Variables1 The Suzerain-Vassal System as East Asian Security System and Structure: Its Origin, Essence, Evolution and FeaturesC. X. George Wei and Zhijiang Wei2 Bridle and Tame: The Evolution of the Tributary System of Ancient China's Borderland Minorities - Centered on the Borderland Minorities of Northeast ChinaCheng NinaPart 2: The Tribute System within the Global Context: Conflict, Transition and Transplantation3 The Fundamental Features of the Tribute System during the Song DynastyHuang Chunyan4 The Chinese Rites Controversy: The Whole Story of the Kangxi's Envoy Joseph-Antoine Provana's Mission to RomeTang Kaijian5 New Light on the Asian Tribute Trade and the Tokugawa Invention of a Japan-Centered International OrderGeoffrey C. GunnPart 3: From the Tribute System to Modern Diplomacy: Challenge, Transformation and Adaptation6 From the Bridle Doctrine to Treaty DiplomacyLi Yuming7 The "Two Paralleled Systems" of the Joseon Dynasty in the Nineteenth Century: The Cultural and Diplomatic BackgroundQuan Hexiu8 The "New Opium War" of Republican China under the League of Nations: Distrust and Contention between the Chinese Government and the LeagueLi Jing and C. X. George WeiGlossaryIndex
