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The Politics of Imagining Asia

In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts some of the major issues concerning modern China and the status quo of contemporary Chinese thought. The book’s overarching theme is the possibility of an alternative modernity that does not rely on imported conceptions of Chinese history and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Hui
Other Authors: Huters, Theodore (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London Harvard University Press 2011, ©2011
Subjects:
China
Westliche Welt
Chinabild
Civilization, Modern
Comparative Civilization
Historiography > political Aspects > east Asia
East Asia > relations > western Countries
East Asia > civilization
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Politics of Imagining Asia
  • 2. How to Explain "China" and Its "Modernity": Rethinking The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought
  • 3. Local Forms, Vernacular Dialects, and the War of Resistance against Japan: The "National Forms" Debate
  • 4. The "Tibetan Question" East and West: Orientalism, Regional Ethnic Autonomy, and the Politics of Dignity
  • 5. Okinawa and Two Dramatic Changes to the Regional Order
  • 6. Weber and the Question of Chinese Modernity
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Index.

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