Staging the World - Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

"Staging the World" fundamentally challenges the conventional assumptions of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century intellectual history and proposes a creative, alternative imagining of the historiography of modern China. This is a rare work of intellectual ambition and righteous moral sense."--Lionel M. Jensen, author of "Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization"

List of contents

Preface & Acknowledgments

Part I
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1. Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on Modern Chinese Nationalism

2. Staging the World

Part II

3. Deterritorializing Politics: The Pacific and Hawaii as Chinese National Space

4. Recognizing Colonialism: The Philippines and Revolution

5. Promoting the Ethnos: The Boer War and Discourses of the People

Part III

6. Performing on the World Stage in Asia

7. Re-creating China’s World

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Rebecca E. Karl

Summary

Though the perceptions and concerns of these thinkers form the basis of Staging the World, this title begins by examining a 1904 Shanghai production of an opera about a fictional partition of Poland and its modern reincarnation as an ethno-nation.

Product details

• Authors: Karl, Rebecca E Karl, Rebecca E. Karl
• Assisted by: Rey Chow (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2002
• EAN: 9780822328520
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2852-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics / Current Events