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The allure of the nation : the cultural and historical debates in Late Qing and Republican China / by Tze-ki Hon.
Van Pelt Library DS775.2 .H777 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hon, Tze-Ki, 1958-
- Series:
- Ideas, history, and modern China ; 11.
- Ideas, history, and modern China ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Intellectual life--1912-1949.
- China.
- Intellectual life.
- China--Intellectual life--1644-1912.
- China--History--Republic, 1912-1949.
- History.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- Qing Dynasty (China).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 167 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, 2015.
- Summary:
- Covering the half century from 1895 to 1945, The Allure of the Nation examines three interlocking aspects of Chinese nationalist modernity: (1) the quest to balance global connectivity and ethnic authenticity: (2) the desire to balance national unity and local autonomy: and (3) the drive to balance history's place as a tool of political propaganda and as a weapon used to critique orthodoxy and political suppression. Be viewing the nation as a cluster of spatial-temporal relations that link individuals to a territorial state, this book provides a different view of early twentieth-century China where the party-state did not have full control of political and cultural affairs, and alternative political perspectives (such as local self-government and democratic aristocracy) could the freely expressed. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Balancing the competing claims in a new global order
- Educating the Chinese citizens
- Sino-Babylonianism before and after the Great War
- A nation of moderation versus a nation of extremes
- China's cultural and ethnic diversity
- A new aristocracy of the Chinese Republic
- Contemporary meanings of the Sui-Tang Period (581-907).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-164) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004290495
- 9004290494
- OCLC:
- 904192819
- Publisher Number:
- 99962792177
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