Saving the nation [[electronic resource] ] : economic modernity in republican China / / Margherita Zanasi

• Autore: Zanasi Margherita
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.951/04
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / General
• Soggetto geografico: China Economic conditions 1912-1949; China History Republic, 1912-1949; China Rural conditions
• Soggetto non controllato: economy, money, finance, wealth, china, chinese, modern, contemporary, republican, politics, political, government, national, nation, nationhood, era, time period, history, historical, empire, 1911, 20th century, technology, technological, socioeconomic, society, nationalist, identity, reform, eastern, east, asia, minzu, industrial, industry, development, rural, council, commission, corporate, bureaucracy, capitalism, bureaucratic, nationalism
• 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
• ISBN: 1-282-50583-1; 9786612505836; 0-226-97874-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792375103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II