Birth of the Geopolitical Age by Shellen Xiao Wu
Contributed by Martyn Schmoll
on Apr 18th, 2024. Artwork published in
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Photo: Martyn Schmoll. License: All Rights Reserved.
From Stanford University Press:
In Birth of the Geopolitical Age, Shellen Xiao Wu demonstrates how global examples of frontier settlements refracted through China’s unique history and informed the making of the modern Chinese state. Wu weaves a narrative that moves through time and space, the lives of individuals, and empires’ rise and fall and rebirth, to show how the subsequent reshaping of Chinese geopolitical ambitions in the twentieth century, and the global transformation of frontiers into colonial laboratories, continues to reorder global power dynamics in East Asia and the wider world to this day.
