Rescuing History from the Nation – Questioning Narratives of Modern China

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: Linear History and the Nation-state2: Bifurcating Linear Histories in China and India3: The Campaigns against Religion and the Return of the Repressed4: Secret Brotherhood and Revolutionary Discourse in China's RepublicanRevolution5: The Genealogy of Fengjian or Feudalism: Narratives of Civil Society and State6: Provincial Narratives of the Nation: Federalism and Centralism in Modern China7: Critics of Modernity in India and ChinaConclusionReferencesIndex

About the author

Prasenjit Duara is chair of the department of history at the University of chicago. He is the author of "Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942" and "Sovereignty and Authentcity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern."

Summary

This study offers a systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history.

Product details

• Authors: Prasenjit Duara, Duara Prasenjit
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780226167220
• ISBN: 978-0-226-16722-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Nationalism, HISTORY / Historiography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, India, Historiography, Political structure & processes, Asian History, Political structure and processes, HISTORY / Asia / South / India