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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813663803321

Titolo

Nation work : Asian elites and national identities / / edited by Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2000

ISBN

1-282-76107-2

9786612761072

0-472-02724-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrookTimothy <1951->

SchmidAndre

Disciplina

320.54/095

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences) - East Asia - History

Nationalism - East Asia - History

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

Contents; Introduction: Nations and Identities in Asia / Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid; Constructing the National Body: Public Health and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Japan / Susan L. Burns; Discourses of Empowerment: Missionary Orientalism in the Development of Dravidian Nationalism / V. Ravindiran; Decentering the "Middle Kingdom": The Problem of China in Korean Nationalist Thought, 1895-1910 / Andre Schmid; Two Kinds of Nation, What Kind of State? / R. Bin Wong; Chen Gongbo and the Construction of a Modern Nation in 1930's China / Margherita Zanasi

Collaborationist Nationalism in Occupied Wartime China / Timothy Brook The Incoherent Nation: An Exploration of Chinese "Post-nationalism" / Xiaoping Li; Nation and Post-nation in Japan: Global Capitalism and the Idea of National History / Thomas Keirstead; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Questions assumptions about nationalism by examining the particular origins of the nation in Asia.