The allure of the nation
Subtitle: the cultural and historical debates in Late Qing and Republican China
By: by Tze-ki Hon
Series: Ideas, history, and modern China -- 11
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9789004290495; 9789004290501
Subjects: Intellectual life; History
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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: Balancing the competing claims in a new global order; title: Educating the Chinese citizens; title: Sino-Babylonianism before and after the Great War; title: A nation of moderation versus a nation of extremes; title: China's cultural and ethnic diversity; title: A new aristocracy of the Chinese Republic; title: Contemporary meanings of the Sui-Tang Period (581-907).