The image of China in Western social and political thought Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: the Bewilderment of Names and Images: East Asia in Western Social and Political Thought	1
1	East Asia in the Early Modern European Imagination	14
	Eighteenth century critics of virtuous China	28
	Summary of the eighteenth century engagement	33
2	Ambassadors, Economists and Oriental Despots: the Early Nineteenth Century Understanding of China	37
	Ambassadors and oriental despots	38
	Sinology, philology and China	52
	Conclusion	64
3	Nineteenth Century Progress and Arrested Civilizations	67
	Romanticism, authenticity and China	70
	The Aryan myth, the yellow race and the problem of degeneration	76
	China and racial apotheosis in late nineteenth century Germany	81
	Comte, Darwin, Spencer and Chinese evolution	85
	Racial determinism, the China case and late nineteenth century thought	96
4	Peculiar Nation: Sinology and the Social Sciences 1890-1949	99
	Sinology at the nineteenth century's end	99
	Weber, Durkheim, and Asia	119
	Culture, psychotherapy, universal history and China in the early twentieth century	125
	A brief genealogy of western approaches to China 1895-1949	137
5	Awakening, Arising, Developing and Deconstructing: China's Mutable Modernization in Contemporary Social and Political Science	145
	Comparative politics and the modernization paradigm	148
	History, area studies and China	166
	Peasant revolutions, dependencia and developmental states	174
	The developmental state, Asian values and the deconstruction of post Maoist China	187
	China wakes (again)	192
	Nationalism and contradictions with Chinese characteristics at the end of history	199
	Toward a conclusion	201
	Notes	204
	Bibliography	207
	Index	228