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

An historical analysis of how the Chinese constructed their understandings of their place in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca E. Karl
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2002
• EAN: 9780822328674
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2867-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Regionalstudien