About the Author
David Martin Jones is Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of Tasmania.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Bewilderment of Names and Images: East Asia in Western Social and Political Thought * East Asia in the Early Modern European Imagination * Ambassadors, Economists, and Oriental Despots: The Early Nineteenth Century Understanding of China * Nineteenth Century Progress and Arrested Civilizations * Peculiar Nation: Sinology and the Social Sciences, 1890-1948 * Awakening, Arising, Developing and Deconstructing: China's Mutable Modernization in Contemporary Social and Political Science
Introduction: The Bewilderment of Names and Images: East Asia in Western Social and Political Thought * East Asia in the Early Modern European Imagination * Ambassadors, Economists, and Oriental Despots: The Early Nineteenth Century Understanding of China * Nineteenth Century Progress and Arrested Civilizations * Peculiar Nation: Sinology and the Social Sciences, 1890-1948 * Awakening, Arising, Developing and Deconstructing: China's Mutable Modernization in Contemporary Social and Political Science