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Imperial-Time-Order : Literature, Intellectual History, and China's Road to Empire /

"Imperial-Time-Order is an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking in modern China. Defined as normalization of unification and moralization of time, Qian suggests, the imperial-time-order signifies a temporal structure of empire that has continued to shape...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Qian, Kun
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Brill, [2016]
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 13 .
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The imperial-time-order
  • The imperial-time-order : the eternal return of the Chinese Empire
  • Part 2. Time, unity, and morality from the late Qing to Mao's China
  • Suspended time : grounding the present in the late Qing
  • Split time : enlightenment and its discontent
  • Continuous time : heroes in the "Protracted War"
  • Transitional time : defining the "people" and the "nation" in Mao's China
  • Part 3. The return of "empire" in the post-Mao period
  • Resurgent time : the return of "empire" in post-socialist representation
  • Love or hate : the First Emperor on the cinematic screen
  • The fascinating empire : emperors in contemporary novels
  • Tianxia revisited : empire and family on the television screen
  • Becoming-minority : Chinese characteristics in minority historical fiction.