What does the word zhongguo mean

According to a Xinhua report in , Hezun was unearthed accidentally by a farmer in Jiacun town of Baoji, Shaanxi province, in The man called Chen Dui, discovered the artifact at an earth cliff near his home. The next year, he gave the bronze piece to a man called Chen Hu. Chen Hu then sold the artifact to a waste recycling station. The inscription on Hezun, with the characters highlighted in red meaning zhongguo, or "China".

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Children in kindergartens around China enter graduation season. From the s until the end of the twentieth century, international relations vocabulary flowed in only one direction: from that larger world into China.

Western military power forced China to accommodate itself to Western notions of sovereignty, to redefine itself first as an empire under the Manchu Qing dynasty and then as a republic under Sun Yat-sen and later Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. Today Xi Jinping seems eager to redefine China once again, this time as a nation-state.

All of these are Western terms suited to the modern world. Drawing on pre-modern Chinese history and philosophy, the emerging Chinese School of international relations is, however, developing a new terminology of Confucian relationality.

Zhao sees the tianxia understanding of a unified world as the basis for a new form of globalism. The concepts of the central state or states zhongguo and of a world-system based on universal values tianxia are useful additions to our terminological toolkit for understanding the world. They may apply to historically-existing world-systems for which Western vocabulary is inadequate, or they may indeed apply to the new world-system form that is emerging from contemporary globalization.

China is certainly a key component of the twenty-first century world. Its philosophical heritage is indispensable for interpreting Chinese history to that world. Featured image credit: Building water historical by danist Public domain via Unsplash. Salvatore Babones is an American sociologist, professor at the University of Sydney, and an expert in the areas of Chinese and American economy and society. Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love.

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