State Formation Through Emulation: The East Asian Model

ISBN-13: 9781009098533 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

CHIN-HAO HUANG

Opis

Argues that states formed in East Asia a thousand years earlier than in Europe, emulating China rather than competing with it.

Recenzje

Huang and Kang have reconstructed deep historical pathways toward state making in East Asia. They helpfully highlight shared traits that distinguish these states as a group from those formed in Europe. State Formation Through Emulation: The East Asian Model helps to reduce the persistent asymmetry of knowledge about European and East Asian state making dynamics. The book points us toward to a future moment when historically contextualized state making dynamics across different world regions can be scrutinized for the distinctive features these diverse states bring into their subsequent encounters with each other. R. Bin Wong, R. Bin Wong, Director of the UCLA Asia Institute and Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The East Asian Model of State Formation; 2. Theories of State Formation and Diffusion; 3. Phase 1 and Onwards: Hegemony, Bureaucracy, and Confucianism; 4. The Absence of Bellicist Pressures in State Formation, 400 – 800 CE; 5. Phase II: State Formation in Korea and Japan, 400 – 800 CE; 6. Korea and Japan over the Centuries; 7. Vietnam emerges, 10th – 14th Centuries; 8. Epistemic Communities and Regional Connections; 9. Who Doesn't Emulate? The Borderlands of the Central Asian Steppe; 10. Conclusion: East Asian Developmental States in the 20th Century. Appendix; References; Index.