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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wang, Hui, 1959- (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Huters, Theodore (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Table des matières:
  • The politics of imagining Asia
  • How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought
  • Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate
  • The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity
  • Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order
  • Weber and the question of Chinese modernity.