The allure of the nation : the cultural and historical debates in Late Qing and Republican China
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The allure of the nation : the cultural and historical debates in Late Qing and Republican China
（Ideas, history, and modern China, v. 11）
Brill, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-164) and index
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Description
Covering half a century, from 1895 to 1945, The Allure of the Nation examines three interlocking aspects of Chinese nationalist modernity: (1) the quest to balance global connectivity and ethnic authenticity; (2) the desire to balance national unity and local autonomy; (3) the drive to balance history's place as a tool of political propaganda and as a weapon used to critique orthodoxy and political suppression. By viewing the nation as a cluster of spatial-temporal relations that link individuals to a territorial state, this book provides a different view of early twentieth-century China where the party-state did not have full control of political and cultural affairs, and alternative political perspectives (such as local self-government and democratic aristocracy) could be freely expressed.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Balancing the Competing Claims in a New Global Order
2. Educating the Chinese Citizens
3. Sino-Babylonianism before and after the Great War
4. A Nation of Moderation versus a Nation of Extremes
5. China's Cultural and Ethnic Diversity
6. A New Aristocracy of the Chinese Republic
7. Contemporary Meanings of the Sui-Tang Period (581-907)
Conclusion
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