Amaury de Riencourt's 1958 interpretation of Chinese civilization — applying civilizational cycle theory to China's history and arguing that China has moved through recurring cycles of feudalism, unification, decline, and renewal, with a distinctive Chinese cultural genius that has survived every disruption.
Provides a Spenglerian-style civilizational analysis of China — treating Chinese history as expressing a distinctive cultural soul that gives it coherent identity across millennia of political disruption.
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