Abstract
The purpose of this research and writing is to conceptualize and, as a next step, rationalize everything in terms of a dot, which is a version of dialectics, embracing the five grand and smaller models, each one of which could also be looked at as a dot or a partial dot of the original or larger dot.
Arguably, by applying the one-dot theory, we can logically, systematically, and coherently describe, explain, and infer since day 1 of the existence of a HanRen/the Han Chinese and a dynasty or empire. More importantly, the same theory can help us to analyze, for example, the complicated and complex marine and maritime relationship between the two republics, since October 1, 1949: Republic of China (ROC) and People’s Republic of China (PRC), which could be understood dialectically and non-“dialectically.”
The major finding of this writing is that bits and pieces of information, data, and analysis can be easily slotted in the one-dot theory. Hence, we can say that China has been evolving from one dot to another dot in general or from one dot to another dot or dots, only to return to one dot again, in particular. Yes, paraphrasing what John Fitzgerald said in the title of his book chapter, the history of death of China has been greatly exaggerated.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+history+timeline&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=oxfqUfOgLY_rrQe0n4GQCg&ved=0CE0QsAQ&biw =1920&bih=985#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=8xgEvWo1GqGGMM%3A%3BNDTPGqxOok_0LM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.franklincollege.edu%252Fpwp%252Fcdarlage%252Fchinese%252520webquest%252520picture.gif%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.franklincollege.edu%252Fpwp%252Fcdarlage%252FChineseDynastyWebquest.html%3B675%3B498, Accessed 20 July 2013. Wei Seke’s superb, bilingual中國歷史皇帝年號西元對照表/Era and Timeline of Chinese History (compiled in February 2001) is more detailed than the one shown. To contact the compiler, use the following email address: seke@mis.ksit.edu.tw.
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The Qin did not conquer smaller ones, such as Wei.
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Other synonyms are: golden mean, road, path, line, and track.
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I came across the following New York Times (NYT) report title, “Can the frog jump before the water boils?” and the last sentence: “Chinese politics is full of pragmatists, like anywhere else, and the next decade will show if the frog gets boiled alive or if it hops out of the pot.” See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/world/asia/20iht-letter20.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_moc.semityn.www, Accessed 24 Sept 2012. In June 2013, my student, Lin Lien Hsiung, alerted me, saying there is one crab, which does not walk sideways. It is called ZhongHuaHuTouXie in Mandarin Chinese or orithyia sinica in English.
- 5.
Zheng, fan, shun, ni, zhen, and wei. There are many dots in the world. For example, each of a polka dot means “each of a number of round dots evenly spaced to form a pattern on fabric.” See Oxford Student’s Dictionary, p. 792.
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One perfect example is that of the landmark passage of the March 2007 Property Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), by the National People’s Congress (NPC), after 14 years of debates. The law is in between 5 and A.
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Crabs can also have XiaoShuiBu (quick short steps). In other words, they can move straight forward. See United Daily News (UDN;Taipei), February 12, 2007, p. A10. In Yilang County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China (ROC), there is a crab museum. Not all crabs can be eaten, because some of them are poisonous. Poison could be dangerous. See Formosa Television (Taiwan, ROC), dated February 7, 2008.
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- 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_period, Accessed 27 July 2013.
- 10.
See ibid.
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Some academics refer to it as the second Zhou dynasty.
- 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Chinese_history, Accessed 30 July 2013.
- 13.
See Goodman and Segal 1994.
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See, for example, Yu 2012.
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This is YiZhongGeBiao (YZGB), meaning one China, respective interpretation. However, Beijing would only use the term, 1992 consensus, not YZBG, because at the international level there could be two Chinas.
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沈富雄:綠對中政策不妨靠攏國民黨 | 民進黨華山會議 | 國內要聞 | 聯合新聞網 http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NATS5/%E6%B2%88%E5%AF%8C%E9%9B%84%EF%BC%9A%E7%B6%A0%E5%B0%8D%E4%B8%AD%E6%94%BF%E7%AD%96%E4%B8%8D%E5%A6%A8%E9%9D%A0%E6%94%8F%E5%9C%8B%E6%B0%91%E9%BB%A8-8008560.shtml#ixzz2Y8I0MbKY, Accessed 5 July 2013.
- 17.
The French accessed JiLong Port by force intermittently from April 1884 to February 1885, and this move had awakened the Qing dynasty, thinking about Taiwan Island’s strategic importance.
- 18.
http://www.chinareviewnews.com, dated 2013-07-24 00:17:27, Accessed 24 July 2013.
- 19.
http://www.chinareviewnews.com, dated 2013-05-08 00:45:29, Accessed 1 Aug 2013.
- 20.
http://www.chinareviewnews.com, dated 2013-04-14 00:11:11, Accessed 1 Aug 2013.
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http://www.chinareviewnews.com, dated 2013-02-25 11:49:24, Accessed 1 Aug2013.
- 22.
Li Mi, “LiangAnGuanXiZhong’1’ Yu ’Er’deBianZheng,” China Review (Hongkong), December 2012, pp. 36–39 and id., “TanTaoLiangAnZhengZhiWenTiYingCongTaoLun’YiZhongKuangJia’DeNeiHanKaiShi,” China Review (Hongkong), April 2013, pp. 4–7. Another Chinese mainland researcher, Ni YongJie, also mentioned 1 and 2. See http://www.CRNTT.com 2013–11-06 00:28:11, Accessed 19 Jan 2014.
- 23.
Lin Gang, “LiangAnZaiTongYiQianDeZhengZhiGuanXiTanXi,” China Review, May 2013, pp. 4–8 at p. 7.
- 24.
See p. 36 of Li Mi’s article and Lin Gang’s p. 6.
- 25.
As mentioned in Chap. 1, we could also add the sixth box since December 1978: Adhere to the CPC’s ideological line of emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, and advance with the times ( JieFangSiXiang, ShiShiQiuShi, and YuShiJuJin).
- 26.
http://www.pladaily.com.cn/item/taiwan/rmrbzyyl/17.htm, Accessed 5 Aug 2013.
- 27.
http://www.pladaily.com.cn/item/taiwan/rmrbzyyl/17.htm,http://big5.taiwan.cn/plzhx/shhzk/201208/t20120815_2917723.htm and http://news.hexun.com/2012-08-07/144431398_18.html, Accessed 5 Aug 2013.
- 28.
http://english.people.com.cn/200507/13/eng20050713_195876.html, Accessed 5 Aug 2013.
- 29.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen also thought about this national title.
- 30.
Zhou JianMin, “‘YiZhongGuangJia’YunHanDeTeShuYiHanYuLiangAnZhengZhiShangTan,” ZhongGuoPingLun/China Review, No.192 (December 2013), p. 38.
- 31.
http://www.gwytb.gov.cn/en/Special/Hu/201103/t20110322_1794707.htm, Accessed 7 Aug 2013.
- 32.
http://www.cna.com.tw/News/aCN/201308090168-1.aspx, Accessed 9 Aug 2013.
- 33.
Wei Yung, “From Multi-system Nations’ to “Linkage Communities,’” Issues and Studies (Taiepi), Vol. 33, No. 10 (October 1997), pp. 1–19, especially p. 3, 16, and 18.
- 34.
See LiQing 2013.
- 35.
http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-worldlook-878792-1.shtml, Accessed 5 Oct 2013.
- 36.
See Luo GuanZhong, with Moss Roberts as the translator, Three Kingdoms (CA.: University of California Press, 2004). Another translation by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor in the 1959 edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is “empires wax and wane and states cleave asunder and coalesce.”
- 37.
C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, translator, Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1959).
- 38.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/8619513/Human-mission-to-Mars-no-longer-just-a-dream, Accessed 1 May 2013.
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- 40.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic, Accessed 20 July 2013.
- 41.
http://www.chinareviewnews.com 2013-09-24 00:03:06, Accessed 2 Oct 2013.
- 42.
They are masters of the demonic arts.
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- 44.
No one has written the following topic by applying my one-dot theory. See Derek C. Y. Yu, The International Regimes and Non-international Regimes Dimensions of the Cross-Strait Search and Rescue Joint Exercise: A One-dot Theory Interpretation, master thesis, National Quemoy University, September 2013.
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YU, Ph. (2015). China: From One Dot to Another Dot. In: Ocean Governance, Regimes, and the South China Sea Issues. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-329-3_11
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