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China in the conception of international society: the English School's engagements with China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2010

XIAOMING ZHANG
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Abstract

Since Martin Wight's famous LSE lectures in the late 1950s, the English School scholars have brought China into the conception of international society. As the English School scholars have been ‘inventing’ an international society, China's status in the conception, or conceptions of international society has also been invented and reinvented. The Chinese case vividly demonstrates how a non-European (or non-Western) country, as one of ‘the others’, has been dealt with and brought into the conceptualisation of international society by the English School. China's status in the conception of international society, to a great extent, has been invented by some of the English School scholars with Eurocentric bias.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 763 - 786
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 2010

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