LEADER 04002nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910820851103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-42631-1 010 $a9786612426315 010 $a0-226-16723-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226167237 035 $a(CKB)2550000000001709 035 $a(EBL)471849 035 $a(OCoLC)527658005 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342346 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947749 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342346 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10286073 035 $a(PQKB)10211907 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000441724 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12139495 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000441724 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10424861 035 $a(PQKB)11277251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC471849 035 $a(DE-B1597)535837 035 $a(OCoLC)1088500154 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226167237 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL471849 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349948 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL242631 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000001709 100 $a19980219d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRescuing history from the nation $equestioning narratives of modern China /$fPrasenjit Duara 205 $aPbk. ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1996, c1995 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-16722-4 311 $a0-226-16721-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-257) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart One -- $tPart Two -- $tConclusion -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aPrasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts. The backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational levels. In a series of closely linked case studies, he considers such examples as the very different histories produced by Chinese nationalist reformers and partisans of popular religions, the conflicting narratives of statist nationalists and of advocates of federalism in early twentieth-century China. He demonstrates the necessity of incorporating contestation, appropriation, repression, and the return of the repressed subject into any account of the past that will be meaningful to the present. Duara demonstrates how to write histories that resist being pressed into the service of the national subject in its progress-or stalled progress-toward modernity. 606 $aCivilization, Oriental 607 $aChina$xHistory 610 $anarrative, stories, history, historical, academic, scholarly, relationship, nation state, nationalism, linear, national, local, transnational, case study, china, chinese, modern, contemporary, present day, reform, reformer, religion, federalism, 20th century, repression, appropriation, civilization, oriental, india, eastern, discourse, republican, revolution, modernity. 615 0$aCivilization, Oriental. 676 $a951.0072 676 $a951/.072 700 $aDuara$b Prasenjit$0250251 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820851103321 996 $aRescuing history from the nation$94123745 997 $aUNINA