The idea of China : a contested history / Guoqi Xu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xu, Guoqi, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Ethnic identity.

Chinese.

National characteristics, Chinese.

China.

Nationalism--China.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Xu Guoqi navigates the fraught terrain of Chinese identity, arguing that the idea of China has always been constructed and reconstructed in concert with the broader world. China is fundamentally constituted by a shared history, and in this way is like all nations: not a stable object but rather a never-ending process of transnational mythmaking.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Note to Readers

Introduction

Part One: Naming

1. Rectification of a Name

2. Who Are the Chinese?

3. Constitutional Troubles

Part Two: Remembering

4. The Burden of National History

5. Unstable Symbols and Boundaries for a Contested Nation

6. Great Debates Around the Idea of China

Part Three: Representing

7. China's Foreign Teachers

8. Sports and the Face of China

9. The Idea of China Through the Lens of Taiwan and Hong Kong

Conclusion: Two Misters, Two Doctors, and the Future of China

Postscript

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-674-30398-9

0-674-30399-7

9780674303997

OCLC:

1569752011