Why China Doesn't Identify with the West, Explained

Here is an analysis of why China today, having opened up and seen an increasing embrace of foreign culture, still doesn't identify with the West at its core. References down below.

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— Chapters —
[0:00] Intro
[1:22] Acknowledge the West
[3:00] China's political tradition
[5:13] Addressing your objection on Taiwan
[7:23] The trajectory of China's politics
[9:56] Addressing your another objection
[10:29] How Chinese people look at nation state
[11:55] chit chat




Bibliography (by topic, chronologically)
/the western canon/
Goodin, R., Pettit, P., and Pogge, T. (2007) eds. A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, 2nd edition, volume 1, Blackwell Publishing, chapter 14, 21, 25

Haidt, J (2012) The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Pantheon Books, chapter 5

Hobbes, T (1994) Leviathan: Edited, with introduction and notes by Edwin Curle, Hackett Publishing

Locke, J. (2005) Second Treatise of Government, Hackett Publishing


/Confucianism and CCP/
Gardner, D. (2014) Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press

Lam, W. (2017) (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Communist Party, Routledge, chapter 3: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/do...

The Economist (2021) How did Confucianism win back the Chinese Communist Party? Accessed at: https://www.economist.com/the-economi...


/the 20th century China/
Bedeski, R. (1975) ‘The Evolution of the Modern State in China: Nationalist and Communist Continuities’, World Politics, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 541-568.

Fenby, J. (2008) Modern China: the Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, HarperCollins Publishers, chapter 7-18

Kaple, D. (2016) ‘Agents of Change: Soviet Advisers and High Stalinist Management in China, 1949–1960’, Journal of Cold War Studies, 18(1), 5-30: https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article-a...

Karl, E, R. (2010) Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History, Duke University Press, chapter 5

Mühlhahn, M. (2019) Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jingping, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Chapter 4-7

Twitchett, D. and Fairbank, J. (2008) The Cambridge History of China, Volume 14: The People's Republic: Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1949-1965, Cambridge University Press, chapter 1-2

Mao, Tse-Tung. (2013) Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume 4, Foreign Languages Press, pp.411


/nationalism/
Louie, K. (2008) (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture, Cambridge University Press, chapter 3




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