TY - CHAP
T1 - The “China Dream” in the Xi-Li administration in the information age
T2 - Shared dreams or same bed, different dreams?
AU - Hung, Chin Fu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - IN 1793 a British envoy, Lord Macartney, arrived at the court of the Chinese emperor, hoping to open an embassy. He brought with him a selection of gifts from his newly industrializing nation. The Qianlong emperor, whose country then accounted for about a third of global GDP, swatted him away: "Your sincere humility and obedience can clearly be seen," he wrote to King George III, but we do not have "the slightest need for your country’s manufactures." The British returned in the 1830s with gunboats to force trade open, and China’s attempts at reform ended in collapse, humiliation and, eventually, Maoism.
AB - IN 1793 a British envoy, Lord Macartney, arrived at the court of the Chinese emperor, hoping to open an embassy. He brought with him a selection of gifts from his newly industrializing nation. The Qianlong emperor, whose country then accounted for about a third of global GDP, swatted him away: "Your sincere humility and obedience can clearly be seen," he wrote to King George III, but we do not have "the slightest need for your country’s manufactures." The British returned in the 1830s with gunboats to force trade open, and China’s attempts at reform ended in collapse, humiliation and, eventually, Maoism.
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U2 - 10.1142/9789814611145_0005
DO - 10.1142/9789814611145_0005
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85013481688
SN - 9789814611138
SP - 111
EP - 144
BT - China Dreams
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co.
ER -