Becoming China

The Story Behind the State

Jeanne-marie Gescher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

784 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Caravel (Verlag)
978-1-4088-8723-3 (ISBN)

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Weaving together the inspirations, ideas, wars and dreams that have shaped the way China's people have thought about order from the ancient past to the recent present, Gescher reveals a story of China as an epic and continuing battle about order that strikes at the heart of what it means to be Chinese. With the past in perspective, the clashes between China's people and the Party come to life as never before-and the importance of China's question becomes clear for everything, including economics. In a thought provoking conclusion, Gescher invites readers to make their own, informed, views about how order might be found in China-and then to take one step further and apply China's question to the wider world. Jeanne-Marie Gescher founded of one of the earliest private advisory firms in China, she has also observed and advised policy institutions on the social, human and environmental changes that have taken place and on their implications, for China and the wider world. Jeanne-Marie has been honorary legal advisor to successive British ambassadors to the PRC from 1989 to 2015; she is a twice-elected former chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in China.
Prior to China, she worked as a legal advisor with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as a trade and competition lawyer in Brussels, and as a lecturer in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University). In 2001, she was awarded an OBE for her China work. She is a Leaders Quest Ambassador. Jeanne-Marie was born in Canada. She is a graduate of the universities of Durham and Aix-en-Provence, and a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She is a guest lecturer at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. In 2016 she became special advisor on China to Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Born in Canada, Jeanne-Marie Gescher is a graduate of the universities of Durham and Aix-en-Provence, and a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. After founding one of the earliest private advisory firms in China, Jeanne-Marie has been honorary legal advisor to successive British ambassadors to the PRC from 1989 to 2015; she is a twice-elected former chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in China. Awarded an OBE for her China work in 2001, she continues to be a long-term advisor on strategy, geopolicy and geovolution to individual business leaders, and an advisor on China to a number of policy institutions and non-governmental organisations. She is also a Senior Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London University.

Leaders and Dynasties
The People's Republic of China
Preface
Author's Note,
A Note on the Chinese Language and Voices,
List of Maps
List of Illustrations

Book I: From the Beginning

Part 1: A Heavenly Empire
Chapter 1: The Mists of Time
Chapter 2: A Heavenly People
Chapter 3: Heaven on Earth?
Chapter 4: A Single Heart

Part 2: Dreams
Chapter 1: One Heaven, One Earth
Chapter 2: A Bright Idea
Chapter 3: This World and Beyond,

Part 3: Whose Heaven?
Chapter 1: Someone Else's Sky
Chapter 2: Rivers of Fortune
Chapter 3: Imagine a People

Book II: Twentieth Century Ideas

Part 4: Up in the City
Chapter 1: Midnight
Chapter 2: A Brave New World
Chapter 3: Thinking Again

Part 5: Down in the Countryside
Chapter 1: Snow in Summer
Chapter 2: Leaping Ahead
Chapter 3: Winds, and More Winds

Part 6: Great Man
Chapter 1: Full Speed Ahead
Chapter 2: Nature's Trails
Chapter 3: The Edges of Order

Book III: What Came Next

Part 7: How Many Suns?
Chapter 1: The Heavenly Party
Chapter 2: Earth Below
Chapter 3: Being Chinese

Conclusion: Becoming China
Key Sources and Further Reading: A Short Bibliographic Note
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	Two 16-page colour plate sections
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1380 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4088-8723-1 / 1408887231
ISBN-13	978-1-4088-8723-3 / 9781408887233
Zustand	Neuware