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The Politics of Imagining Asia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061354
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Politics of Imagining AsiaDDC classification:
  • 950.072
LOC classification:
  • DS509
Online resources:
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.
Summary: One of China's most influential intellectuals questions the validity of thinking about Chinese history and its legacy from a Western conceptual framework. Wang Hui argues that we need to more fully understand China's past in order to imagine alternative ways of conceiving Asia and world order.
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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.

One of China's most influential intellectuals questions the validity of thinking about Chinese history and its legacy from a Western conceptual framework. Wang Hui argues that we need to more fully understand China's past in order to imagine alternative ways of conceiving Asia and world order.

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