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China stands up.(China Stands Up: The PRC and the International System)(Book review)
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Pacific Affairs
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Zhang, Yongjin
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CHINA STANDS UP: The PRC and the International System. By David Scott. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.vii, 212 pp. US$39.95. paper. ISBN 978-0-415-40270-5
Using Mao Zedong's iconic claim that "Chinese people have stood up" as the central organizing theme of his book, David Scott tries to retell, rather bravely, the familiar story of the People's Republic of China's foreign relations in the second half of the twentieth century and to foretell the PRC in twenty-first-century international relations. Riding on the wave of fascination about the rise of China, Scott's story traces the rise back to Mao's proclamation and examines it as a historical process in the longue ...