The Politics of Imagining Asia

Informationen zum Autor Wang Hui is Professor of Literature and History at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Theodore Huters is Professor Emeritus of Chinese in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California! Los Angeles. Klappentext One of China's most influential intellectuals questions the validity of thinking about Chinese history and its legacy from a Western conceptual framework. Wang Hui argues that we need to more fully understand China's past in order to imagine alternative ways of conceiving Asia and world order. Zusammenfassung One of China’s most influential intellectuals questions the validity of thinking about Chinese history and its legacy from a Western conceptual framework. Wang Hui argues that we need to more fully understand China’s past in order to imagine alternative ways of conceiving Asia and world order.

Product details

• Authors: Hui Wang
• Assisted by: Theodore Huters (Editor), Huters Theodore (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2011
• EAN: 9780674055193
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05519-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 243 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; China, Asia, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Politics & government, Asian History, Political science and theory