Perhaps the most salient feature of the transformation of China's economic policy is its tack into the oceanic sphere. This is a break with the country's traditional past as an inlandlooking, continental power: the landscape is now complemented by the seascape. This article suggests that China's new relationship with the sea asks for a master plan for reclaiming a neglected maritime past-the invention of a national maritime tradition, a newly tailored past to explain China's former relationship with the sea.
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Léonard Blussé (2018) studied this question.