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Autore |
Zarrow Peter Gue |
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Titolo |
After empire [[electronic resource] ] : the conceptual transformation of the Chinese state, 1885-1924 / / Peter Zarrow |
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Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (413 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Monarchy - China - History - 20th century |
China History 1861-1912 |
China History 1912-1928 |
China Politics and government 19th century |
China Politics and government 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Kang Youwei’s Philosophy of Power and the 1898 Reform Movement -- 2 Liang Qichao and the Citizen-State -- 3 “Sovereignty” and the Translated State -- 4 Voices of Receding Reaction -- 5 Identity, History, and Revolution -- 6 Restoration and Revolution -- 7 Founding the Republic of China -- 8 The Last Emperors -- Conclusion -- List of Characters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. What made it possible to suddenly imagine a world without the emperor? After Empire traces the formation of the modern Chinese idea of the state through the radical reform programs of the late Qing (1885–1911), the Revolution of 1911, and the first years of the Republic through the final expulsion of the last emperor of the Qing from the Forbidden City in 1924. It contributes to longstanding debates on modern Chinese nationalism by |
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