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 …
MH Hunt - China's quest for national identity, 1993 - degruyter.com
An important, perhaps even dominant feature of Chinese national identity has been a preoccupation with creating and maintaining a strong centralized state. During the crisis of …
J Fitzgerald - Chinese nationalism, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The history of modern China, in the round, is recounted as a struggle for national reunification and liberation traced through the rise and fall of successive state formations in …
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 …
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 …
Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization. What does the rise of China represent, and how should the …
Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018. A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels …
A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it back. The Chinese dynastic state's blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine …
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE The extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today. Even at the high noon …