The Allure of the Nation : The Cultural and Historical Debates in Late Qing and Republican China.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Ideas, History, and Modern China Series ; v.11 .
- Ideas, History, and Modern China Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Nationalistic Modernity -- Ti and Yong -- Nation versus State -- Chapter 1 Balancing the Competing Claims in a New Global Order -- Exhortation to Learning -- Popular Power -- Balancing Two Extreme Views -- The Right Sequence of Learning -- Social and Economic Reforms -- Political Reform -- The Moderate Approach -- Chapter 2 Educating the Chinese Citizens -- The Two-Pronged Approach to Teaching History -- The Japanese Model -- The Three Periods -- The Golden Age -- Liberation by Returning to the Past -- Chapter 3 Sino-Babylonianism before and after the Great War -- The Origins of Sino-Babylonianism -- Sino-Babylonianism in East Asia -- Making Sense of the Distant Past -- Recovering the Chinese Essence -- The Hierarchy in Time -- Mapping the Nation's Geo-Body -- Changing Perspectives of the Nation-State System -- Chapter 4 A Nation of Moderation versus a Nation of Extremes -- Liu Yizheng's History of Chinese Culture -- The Man and His Times -- Chinese Culture as an Open System -- The Collective Spirit of the Nation -- A Nation of Moderation -- Local Self-Government -- Centralization and Autonomy -- Chapter 5 China's Cultural and Ethnic Diversity -- Cultural and Ethnic Plurality -- Dispute with Dai Jitao -- Stratification Theory -- Process versus Telos -- The Multiplicity and Complexity of Human Events -- Chapter 6 A New Aristocracy of the Chinese Republic -- New Humanism in Early Twentieth-Century America -- Wu Mi's New Humanism -- Aristocratic Democracy -- Education and Democracy -- Chapter 7 Contemporary Meanings of the Sui-Tang Period (581-907) -- A Biography of Chen Yinke -- The Dialectics of Opposition and Complementarity -- China as an Open System -- China among Equals -- Land, Family, and Power -- Matching the Foreign yong with the Chinese ti -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
In The Allure of the Nation, Tze-ki Hon offers an account of early twentieth-century China where the nation was understood as a cluster of spatial-temporal relations that link individuals to a native place, a social network, and a territorial state.