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| Author | Howard W. French |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | China |
| Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | 2017 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 978-0385353328 |
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power is a 2017 book by American journalist Howard W. French, in which the author examines China's historical ideological development and analyzes how this might shape its foreign and domestic policy as it becomes increasingly politically, economically, and militarily powerful.
Summary
[edit]National humiliation
[edit]French dedicates chapter 1 to analyzing China's historical relationship with Japan, particularly with regard to the Ryukyu Islands, which both countries today claim sovereignty over but which Japan de facto controls.
Island barbarians
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French devotes chapter 2 to analyzing China's view of the South China Sea, which it views as largely its sovereign territory. In particular, China claims that it has "historical rights" to a vast expanse of the sea known as the nine-dash line. French claims that these claims provide an understanding of "China's ambivalence [to] the international system and to the continuing resonance of a certain imperial perspective—tian xia.[1]: 58
The gullet of the world
[edit]A pacified south
[edit]Sons of heaven, setting suns
[edit]Claims and markers
[edit]Reception
[edit]In the New York Times, Judith Shapiro calls the book an "exhaustively researched and fascinating account of geopolitics", and comments favorably on French's thesis, stating that French "shows convincingly that China’s goal is now to displace the American barbarians and correct historic humiliations imposed by those who dethroned China from its rightful position at the center of the world".[2] Tyler Rothmar, writing in The Japan Times, calls the book a "valuable resource" says that French rests his arguments on "wide and thoroughly referenced reading".[3] Kirkus Reviews calls the book a "lucid if stolid overview of regional history, useful for students of Pacific affairs in playing out scenarios of what might happen next".[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b French, Howard W. (2017). Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power. Knopf. ISBN 978-0385353328.
- ^ Shapiro, Judith (15 June 2017). "America's Collision Course With China". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Rothmar, Tyler (24 June 2017). "'Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push For Global Power': Waking up to China's dream of holding court". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ French, Howard W. (14 March 2017). "Everything Under the Heavens". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 1 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Lenaburg, Jerry. "Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power". New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Chatwin, Jonathan (19 May 2017). ""Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power" by Howard French". Asian Review of Books. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Platt, Stephen R. (24 March 2017). "The Chip on China's Shoulder". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 21 November 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Mulroney, David (24 March 2017). "Howard W. French's Everything Under the Heavens, reviewed: The last empire". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Tangredi, Sam J. (Winter 2019). "Everything under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power". Naval War College Review. 72 (1). Archived from the original on 21 February 2020.
- ^ Buruma, Ian (12 June 2017). "Are China and the United States Headed for War?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
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