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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464148103321

Autore

Hon Tze-ki

Titolo

Allure of the nation : the cultural and historical debates in late qing and Republican China / / by Tze-ki Hon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29050-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Ideas, History, and Modern China, , 1875-9394 ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

951

Soggetti

Electronic books.

China Civilization 20th century

China Civilization Pictorial works

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 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 -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.