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Staging the World
Rebecca E. Karl
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Description for Staging the World
Paperback. Discusses how Chinese conceptions of nationalism were affected by the "discovery" of Hawaii as a centre of the Pacific, the Philippine revolution against the United States, and the relationship between nationality and ethnicity made apparent by the Boer War in South Africa. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese identification with what we now call the Third World first made the modern world visible as a totality and that the key components of Chinese nationalist discourse developed in reference to this worldview.
The emergence of Chinese nationalism during this period is often portrayed as following from China’s position vis-à-vis Japan and ... Read more
In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese identification with what we now call the Third World first made the modern world visible as a totality and that the key components of Chinese nationalist discourse developed in reference to this worldview.
The emergence of Chinese nationalism during this period is often portrayed as following from China’s position vis-à-vis Japan and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822328674
SKU
V9780822328674
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About Rebecca E. Karl
Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China and Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History and co-translator (with Xueping Zhong) of Cai Xiang's Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, all also ... Read more
Reviews for Staging the World
“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 “Rebecca Karl not only explores an exciting period in Chinese intellectual ... Read more