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The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State : Japan and China /
Although we may be aware that China and Japan were not nation-states until relatively recently, we still speak and write about Han dynasty China or Jomon Japan. And almost all historians refer to prehistoric China or Japan. Thus imposing the national story on the local, the authors contend, harms th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Emergence of aesthetic Japan / Eiko Ikegami
- North(west)ern peoples and the recurrent origins of the "Chinese" state / Victor Mair
- State-making in global context : Japan in a world of nation-states / Mark Ravina
- When did China become China? : thoughts on the twentieth century / William C. Kirby
- Civilization and enlightenment : markers of identity in nineteenth-century Japan / David L. Howell
- Nationality and difference in China : the post-imperial dilemma / Pamela Kyle Crossley
- Cultivating non-national understandings in local history / Luke S. Roberts
- Where do incorrect political ideas come from? : writing the history of the Qing empire and the Chinese nation / Peter C. Perdue.