@prefix rdf: . @prefix ns1: . ns1:europeana-2022720_lod_oai_idus_us_es_11441____48014_ent0 rdf:type . @prefix rdfs: . ns1:europeana-2022720_lod_oai_idus_us_es_11441____48014_ent0 rdfs:label "The Point of the Centre: Present and Past Discourses of \u201CChina\u201D-hood" . @prefix ns3: . @prefix ns4: . ns1:europeana-2022720_lod_oai_idus_us_es_11441____48014_ent0 ns3:about ns4:concept ; ns3:dateCreated "2001-2100" ; ns3:description "Description: With the rise of China over the recent decades, both economic and geopolitical, pundits have increasingly come to remind us that once upon a time what we now call China was the centre of its world. The implication invariably is that just like the historical China was once a centre of global gravity, its current trajectory may be expected to bring today\u2019s China inexorably back into the centre of the global order from which it only briefly abstained itself for a few recent centuries. When making such conjectures, we assume we safely know what China is and where it is. But what is this \u201CChina\u201D, Zhongguo or Zhonghua, the \u201CMiddle Kingdom\u201D or \u201CCentral Civilisation\u201D, as it is famously called in its native version? It certainly has the claim to centrality in its very name. Yet the name was emphatically not established as a geographic or ethnic label for a territorial state or a nation. Rather, it represented a bold normative claim, a universalist assertion of value. It resembles such lofty epithets as \u201Cthe Land of the Free\u201D, \u201Cthe new Rome\u201D, or \u201CZion\u201D in that it is above all an aspirational title. Historically, the gravitational pull that has constituted what some have called \u201Cthe Sinosphere\u201D was due to this aspirational universal moral claim more than it was the result of an actual geopolitical hegemony. Until the twentieth century and the arrival on the stage of that brave new invention \u2013the nation\u2013 neither territory nor ethnicity really defined \u201CChina\u201D. A situated view from the neighbourhood may help to clarify this confusing situation. Well embedded in the broader Sinosphere through a complex history of negotiating its relations to the succession of dynastic empires on the mainland, the Japanese archipelago has long been the locus of discussions about the meaning and purpose of the Chinese claim to represent the \u201CMiddle Kingdom\u201D. Indeed, in terms of statehood and asserted or wished cultural identity, \u201CJapan\u201D has defined itself for most of its history by acknowledging, denying, emulating or arrogating that claim to centrality. We can understand much about what \u201CChina\u201D has meant by mapping Japanese aspirations to become China." , "Description: El continuo auge econ\u00F3mico y geopol\u00EDtico de China nos recuerda que lo que actualmente se denomina China fue hace un tiempo el Reino del Centro, el centro del mundo. La implicaci\u00F3n de esta afirmaci\u00F3n es que al igual que la China hist\u00F3rica fue centro gravitacional global en Asia, su trayectoria actual puede reposicionar a China inexorablemente en el centro del orden mundial. El an\u00E1lisis hist\u00F3rico de Zhongguo o Zhonghua, la \u201CTierra del Medio\u201D o la \u201CCivilizaci\u00F3n Central\u201D, y su postulaci\u00F3n a convertirse en referencia moral universal, sin contar con la hegemon\u00EDa geopol\u00EDtica real sobre la regi\u00F3n circundante, puede arrojar luz sobre este tema. La ambici\u00F3n de China se asemejaba a ep\u00EDtetos como \u201Cla Tierra de los hombres libres\u201D, \u201Cla Nueva Roma\u201D o \u201CZi\u00F3n\u201D. Hist\u00F3ricamente, la fuerza gravitacional que constituy\u00F3 lo que algunos han denominado la sinoesfera proced\u00EDa de esta postulaci\u00F3n moral universal a la cual aspiraba. Dentro de la sinoesfera, en una compleja historia de negociaci\u00F3n de relaciones con las sucesivas dinast\u00EDas imperiales que gobernaban en el continente, Jap\u00F3n ha sido durante tiempo el punto focal de discusi\u00F3n sobre el significado y objetivo de la postulaci\u00F3n china de representar el Reino del Centro. Efectivamente, a lo largo de su historia, Jap\u00F3n se ha definido a s\u00ED mismo a trav\u00E9s del reconocimiento, la negaci\u00F3n, la emulaci\u00F3n o la demanda de esa centralidad. Quiz\u00E1s podamos entender mejor lo que China ha significado profundizando en las aspiraciones japonesas de ser China." , "europeanaCollectionName: 2022720_Ag_ES_Hispana_Idus" , "id: 2022720_lod_oai_idus_us_es_11441____48014_ent0" , "MediaType: TEXT" ; ns3:name "The Point of the Centre: Present and Past Discourses of \u201CChina\u201D-hood"@es ; ns3:temporal . @prefix ns5: . @prefix ns6: . ns1:europeana-2022720_lod_oai_idus_us_es_11441____48014_ent0 ns5:accessInfo ns6:accessinfo ; ns5:sourceInfo ns6:sourceinfo ; ns5:temporal _:b20429453 ; ns3:isPartOf ; ns5:spatial _:b20429452 . @prefix ns7: . ns1:europeana-2022720_lod_oai_idus_us_es_11441____48014_ent0 ns3:inLanguage ns7:eng , ns7:spa ; ns3:spatial .