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The Eurasian Core and Its Edges : Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World / Ooi Kee Beng.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789814519854
  • 9789814519861
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.098
LOC classification:
  • D21.3 .W34 2015
  • D21.3 .W34 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One. Of Cores and Edges -- Chapter Two. The Two-Ocean Mediterranean -- Chapter Three. Southeast Asia and Foreign Empires -- Chapter Four. China’s Struggle with the Western Edge -- Chapter Five. Combining Continental and Maritime Power -- EPILOGUE -- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY WANG GUNGWU SINCE 2008 -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: With China’s transformation into a republic after two millennia as an empire as the starting point, Ooi Kee Beng prompts renowned historian Wang Gungwu through a series of interviews to discuss China, Europe, Southeast Asia and India. What emerges is an exciting and original World History that is neither Eurocentric nor Sinocentric. If anything, it is an appreciation of the dominant role that Central Asia played in the history of most of mankind over the last several thousand years.The irrepressible power of the Eurasian core over the centuries explains much of the development of civilizations founded at the fringes — at its edges to the west, the east and the south. Most significantly, what is recognized as The Global Age today, is seen as the latest result of these conflicts between core and edge leading at the Atlantic fringe to human mastery of the sea — in military and mercantile terms. In effect, human history, which had for centuries been configured by continental dynamics, has only quite recently established a new dimension to counteract these. In summary, Wang Gungwu argues convincingly that “The Global is Maritime”.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One. Of Cores and Edges -- Chapter Two. The Two-Ocean Mediterranean -- Chapter Three. Southeast Asia and Foreign Empires -- Chapter Four. China’s Struggle with the Western Edge -- Chapter Five. Combining Continental and Maritime Power -- EPILOGUE -- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY WANG GUNGWU SINCE 2008 -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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With China’s transformation into a republic after two millennia as an empire as the starting point, Ooi Kee Beng prompts renowned historian Wang Gungwu through a series of interviews to discuss China, Europe, Southeast Asia and India. What emerges is an exciting and original World History that is neither Eurocentric nor Sinocentric. If anything, it is an appreciation of the dominant role that Central Asia played in the history of most of mankind over the last several thousand years.The irrepressible power of the Eurasian core over the centuries explains much of the development of civilizations founded at the fringes — at its edges to the west, the east and the south. Most significantly, what is recognized as The Global Age today, is seen as the latest result of these conflicts between core and edge leading at the Atlantic fringe to human mastery of the sea — in military and mercantile terms. In effect, human history, which had for centuries been configured by continental dynamics, has only quite recently established a new dimension to counteract these. In summary, Wang Gungwu argues convincingly that “The Global is Maritime”.

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In English.

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