The problem with modern territorial nationalism is that while it is the only acceptable form of
sovereignty in the modern world, it is an inadequate basis of affective identification within the …

Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely
interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's' response to the West.'This book, by a …

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem
in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern …

This study examines the attempts by China's Han ethnic majority to politically and culturally
incorporate the ethnically heterogeneous polities of the former Qing empire (1644–1911) …

This ambitious book looks into the reasons for the exceptional durability of the Chinese
empire, which lasted for more than two millennia (221 BCE–1911 CE). Yuri Pines identifies …

The Chinese empire was born amid the turmoil and wars of the second century BCE. In the
first two dynastic regimes, the Qin (221-206 BCE) and the Han (202 BCE-220 CE) several …

A calculated but rarely discussed cultural metamorphosis took place in eighteenthcentury
China. A deliberate imperial policy infused political life, the physical landscape, and material …

In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China,
Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the …

What is" Chinese about China s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see
today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal …