What Is China? - Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History

Informationen zum Autor Ge Zhaoguang is Professor of the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the Department of History at Fudan University in Shanghai. Michael Gibbs Hill is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at William & Mary and author of Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture . Klappentext Ge Zhaoguang addresses sensitive questions of identity that shape the politics of the world¿s most populous country. This insider¿s account teases out nuances of Chinäs encounter with the contemporary world, using its past to explain its present and to provide insight into paths the nation might follow as the current century unfolds. Zusammenfassung Ge Zhaoguang addresses sensitive questions of identity that shape the politics of the world’s most populous country. This insider’s account teases out nuances of China’s encounter with the contemporary world, using its past to explain its present and to provide insight into paths the nation might follow as the current century unfolds.

Product details

• Authors: Zhaoguang Ge, Ge Zhaoguang
• Assisted by: Michael Gibbs Hill (Translation), Hill Michael Gibbs (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2018
• EAN: 9780674737143
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73714-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; China, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Asia / China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Historiography, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Central / national / federal government, Black & Asian Studies, Central government, All-Under-Heaven