@article{855876,
      author = {Ge, Zhaoguang, and Hill, Michael},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/855876},
      title = {What is China? : territory, ethnicity, culture, and  history /},
      abstract = {Chinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to  outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they  know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of  helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and  history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has  undertaken the task of explaining China to foreigners. He  examines the historical and cultural background of China's  emergence as a major world power from a Chinese  perspective. Ge argues that the meanings of China and  Chinese culture regularly change and avoid a single  definition, and that honest discussion of these different  meanings and how they arose give us a better route to  understanding both historical and contemporary China. He  puts forward his solution as an alternative to what he sees  as writings that are too eager to deconstruct and perhaps  dismiss the idea of China as a historical entity  altogether. By offering a general scholarly overview of  China, Ge's book begins to overcome the disjunction between  American knowledge about China and Chinese understanding of  the country.--},
      recid = {855876},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 201 pages)},
}