The politics of imagining Asia
By: Wang Hui ; edited by Theodore Huters
Contributors: Huters, Theodore
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780674055193
Subjects: Historiography; Modern Civilization; Western countries; East Asia; Comparative civilization; Relations; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of imagining Asia; title: How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought; title: Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate; title: The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity; title: Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order; title: Weber and the question of Chinese modernity.