The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World

The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World

Ooi Kee Beng

Format: Print Book

ISBN: 9789814519854

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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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Buy by Chapter (individual chapters fulfilled in digital format)
Preliminary pages
1. Of Core and Edges
2. The Two-Ocean Mediterranean
3. Southeast Asia and Foreign Empires
4. China's Struggle with the Western Edge
5. Combining Continental and Maritime Power
Epilogue
List of Publications by Wang Gungwu since 2008
Index
About the Author
Photo plates

Subjects:Asia History

Number of Pages: 254

Imprint:

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Publication Date: 41982

Format: PB


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