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Commentary

Wang Gungwu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

Brantly Womack
With contributions by
Wang Gungwu ,
Wu Yu-Shan ,
Qin Yaqing  and
Evelyn Goh
Brantly Womack
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Wang Gungwu
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore
Wu Yu-Shan
Affiliation:
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Qin Yaqing
Affiliation:
China Foreign Affairs University
Evelyn Goh
Affiliation:
Australian National University
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Summary

While Pacific Asia had China as a “solid center,” a place in the middle where most of the people and production was, the West had a “liquid center,” the Mediterranean. Wealth could be pursued and neighbors conquered in different places in the West, leading to competitive, distinct empires rather than to dynastic cycles.

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Traditional Chinese centralityasymmetrynomadic challengeChina’s inland threat
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Recentering Pacific Asia
Regional China and World Order
 , pp. 71 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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