… , state-building in modern China was equated with nation-building, and the majority of Chinese
elites agreed that a strong state was … Only with a strong nation could China overcome its …

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 challenges …

… But when we shift our perspective from Shanghai to Urumchi, the historian of modern China
encounters a case study substantial and continuous enough to illustrate the ways Chinese …

… concept which permeates Chinese political consciousness and … modern Chinese state and
stresses the continuities of state … the state can we perceive the evolutionary nature of Chinese …

… The Chinese state lacked the capacities for routine surveillance and massive intervention
of the sorts we see among contemporary states, but the eighteenth-century bureaucracy …

… modern Chinese state (under Nationalist and Communist regimes). The present study remains
largely faithful to that original intent, but early in the course of research the project took an …

… state, which signified the nation by 'representing' it? I propose to explore the relationship
between state and nation in the Chinese … the Chinese case - chiefly the ideal of the unitary state, …

… Chinese nationalism should help China reconstruct its own … elements from the traditional and
the modern, East and West."… of Chinese nationalism: "First, it is about how the Chinese state …

… Modern Chinese education has been a favourite topic of scholarly research in the West, in
Japan, and in China… a static Chinese system, thus assigning the birth of modern Chinese …

… by the Chinese state, and the state only compensated the most conciliatory clerics. … Despite
the firewalls set up by the Chinese state to control the vast Chinese intranet, there are exit …