Staging the World
Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Published on 22. April 2002
328 pages
978-0-8223-8352-9 (ISBN)
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An historical analysis of how the Chinese constructed their understandings of their place in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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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 published by Duke University Press. She co-translated and coedited (with Lydia H. Liu and Dorothy Ko) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.
Content
Preface & Acknowledgments
Part I
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
Part I
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
