03419nam 22006494a 450 991045923680332120200520144314.01-282-50583-197866125058360-226-97874-510.7208/9780226978741(CKB)2670000000009722(EBL)488113(OCoLC)593304399(SSID)ssj0000342640(PQKBManifestationID)11286389(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342640(PQKBWorkID)10287775(PQKB)11449915(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115833(MiAaPQ)EBC488113(DE-B1597)523899(OCoLC)1135589879(DE-B1597)9780226978741(Au-PeEL)EBL488113(CaPaEBR)ebr10366817(CaONFJC)MIL250583(EXLCZ)99267000000000972220051114d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSaving the nation[electronic resource] economic modernity in republican China /Margherita ZanasiChicago University of Chicago Press20061 online resource (333 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-97873-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-297) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. Envisioning Modern China -- PART II. Building the Corporativist State -- PART III. From Theory to Practice -- PART IV. Defending Which Nation? -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexEconomic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911. Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China's institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation. HISTORY / GeneralbisacshChinaEconomic conditions1912-1949ChinaHistoryRepublic, 1912-1949ChinaRural conditionsElectronic books.HISTORY / General.330.951/04Zanasi Margherita901395MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459236803321Saving the nation2014783UNINA