Well fine, but I think the whole thing was supposed to be about where did these ideas that China ought to be hegemon come from.
Are they simply Marxist ideas with no further history? Or are there strains of Chinese thought (in whatever sense, even if they were from former outside sources) which were doggedly set on hegemony one day?
“Well fine, but I think the whole thing was supposed to be about where did these ideas that China ought to be hegemon come from.”
It was kind of a reaction to the whole sick man of Asia thing.
It mainly comes from Mao and his immediate influences. Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek did hold similar views. It was a modern Chinese Nationalism developed in large part by Sun wherein he tried to include more than just Han or Manchu as Chinese but also Western Muslims (non-Han East Turkestan), Central Muslims (Hui, who are Han) and non-Han Tibet and Mongolia.
The Communists took it further in a type of master race sort of outlook.
“Well fine, but I think the whole thing was supposed to be about where did these ideas that China ought to be hegemon come from.”
Racism.
No, no, don’t protest.
It’s racism, plain and simple.