Discovering War in Chinese History
From the modern perspective, both in the West and China, it often appears as if war had no place in Chinese history. This paper will attempt to reinsert war into China’s history by situating the study of Chinese military history within current debates in the broader forum of military history and Chi...
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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient, |
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident
2015
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | From the modern perspective, both in the West and China, it often appears as if war had no place in Chinese history. This paper will attempt to reinsert war into China’s history by situating the study of Chinese military history within current debates in the broader forum of military history and Chinese history. China’s political, economic, technological and military weakness in the 19th and 20th centuries was projected back onto the entire sweep of Chinese history and backwardness in the latter two aspects was viewed by historians as a fundamental element. Joseph Needham began to excavate China’s scientific and technological history in the middle of the 20th century, but China’s military history only received the same serious attention starting in the 1990s. |
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