The Allure of the Nation : The Cultural and Historical Debates in Late Qing and Republican China (Ideas, History, and Modern China)

Hon, Tze-ki

Brill（2015/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004290495
• DDC分類 951.04

Full Description

Covering half a 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; (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. By 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 be freely expressed.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Balancing the Competing Claims in a New Global Order

2. Educating the Chinese Citizens

3. Sino-Babylonianism before and after the Great War

4. A Nation of Moderation versus a Nation of Extremes

5. China's Cultural and Ethnic Diversity

6. A New Aristocracy of the Chinese Republic

7. Contemporary Meanings of the Sui-Tang Period (581-907)

Conclusion

Bibliography