http://www.froginawell.net/china/2006/07/creating-east-asia/ The China History Group Blog Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:31:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2006/07/creating-east-asia/comment-page-1/#comment-2370 lirelou Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:09:46 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2006/07/creating-east-asia/#comment-2370 Good point on the analogy to WC! The project appears doomed at inception. But the point on Vietnam is well taken. Certainly it was part of the Confucian/Chinese character using world. Good point on the analogy to WC! The project appears doomed at inception. But the point on Vietnam is well taken. Certainly it was part of the Confucian/Chinese character using world.

]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2006/07/creating-east-asia/comment-page-1/#comment-2185 Jonathan Dresner Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:55:19 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2006/07/creating-east-asia/#comment-2185 The analogy to Western Civilization is interesting, because that also works much better in the pre-modern and early modern than it does in the industrialized age. Nationalism and hard-edged states competing viciously makes it considerably harder to write the kind of "shared experience" narrative necessary for the "civilization" trope to work. The analogy to Western Civilization is interesting, because that also works much better in the pre-modern and early modern than it does in the industrialized age. Nationalism and hard-edged states competing viciously makes it considerably harder to write the kind of “shared experience” narrative necessary for the “civilization” trope to work.

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