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UNINA9910972508203321 |
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Wang Hui |
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Titolo |
The politics of imagining Asia / / Wang Hui ; edited by Theodore Huters |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (369 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Civilization, Modern |
Comparative civilization |
Historiography - Political aspects - East Asia |
East Asia Civilization |
East Asia Relations Western countries |
Western countries Relations East Asia |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index. |
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The politics of imagining Asia -- How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought -- Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate -- The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity -- Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order -- Weber and the question of Chinese modernity. |
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In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts some of the major issues concerning modern China and the status quo of contemporary Chinese thought. The book's overarching theme is the possibility of an alternative modernity that does not rely on imported conceptions of Chinese history and its legacy. Wang Hui argues that current models, based largely on Western notions of empire and the nation-state, fail to account for the richness and diversity of pre-modern Chinese historical practice. At the same time, he refrains from offering an exclusively Chinese perspective and placing China in an intellectual ghetto. Navigating terrain on regional language and politics, he draws on China's unique past to expose the inadequacies of |
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European-born standards for assessing modern China's evolution. He takes issue particularly with the way in which nation-state logic has dominated politically charged concerns like Chinese language standardization and "The Tibetan Question." His stance is critical - and often controversial - but he locates hope in the kinds of complex, multifaceted arrangements that defined China and much of Asia for centuries. The Politics of Imagining Asia challenges us not only to re-examine our theories of "Asia" but to reconsider what "Europe" means as well. As Theodore Huters writes in his introduction, "Wang Hui's concerns extend beyond China and Asia to an ambition to rethink world history as a whole." |
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UNINA9910971384903321 |
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Autore |
Maintenon, Madame de, <1635-1719.> |
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Dialogues and addresses / / Madame de Maintenon ; edited and translated by John J. Conley |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004 |
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9786611125868 |
9781281125866 |
1281125865 |
9780226502403 |
0226502406 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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The other voice in early modern Europe |
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Women - Education - Europe |
Women - Europe - Conduct of life |
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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 (p. 155-167) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- VOLUME EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- VOLUME EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY -- DIALOGUES -- ADDRESSES TO STUDENTS -- ADDRESSES TO FACULTY -- SERIES EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women. Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an opponent of gender equality. The writings in this volume faithfully reflect Maintenon's respect for social hierarchy and her stoic call for women to accept the duties of their state in life. But the writings also echo Maintenon's more feminist concerns: the need to redefine the virtues in the light of women's experience, the importance of naming the constraints on women's freedom, and the urgent need to remedy the scandalous neglect of the education of women. In her writings as well as in her own model school at Saint-Cyr, Maintenon embodies the demand for educational reform as the key to the empowerment of women at the dawn of modernity. |
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