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Saving the nation : economic modernity in republican China / / Margherita Zanasi



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Autore: Zanasi Margherita Visualizza persona
Titolo: Saving the nation : economic modernity in republican China / / Margherita Zanasi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
Disciplina: 330.951/04
Soggetto geografico: China Economic conditions 1912-1949
China History Republic, 1912-1949
China Rural conditions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-297) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Economic 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Saving the nation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-50583-1
9786612505836
0-226-97874-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815189603321
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