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Global space and the nationalist discourse of modernity : the historical thinking of Liang Qichao /Xiaobing Tang

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: Brijwasi Book Distributors | ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , ©1996.Description: viii, 289 pages ;26 cmISBN:
  • 9780804725835
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 951.0350 TAN
Contents:
Introduction: Toward a Geography of the Discourse of Modernity -- 1. History Imagined Anew: Liang Qichao in 1902 -- 2. The Nationalist Historian and New Historiography -- 3. The Nation and Revolution: Narrating the Modern Event -- 4. Modernity as Political Discourse: Interpreting Revolution -- 5. The Spatial Logic of the New Culture: Modernity and Its Completion -- 6. Conclusion: Toward a Production of Anthropological Space.
Summary: This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an imaginative thinker
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Introduction: Toward a Geography of the Discourse of Modernity --
1. History Imagined Anew: Liang Qichao in 1902 --
2. The Nationalist Historian and New Historiography --
3. The Nation and Revolution: Narrating the Modern Event --
4. Modernity as Political Discourse: Interpreting Revolution --
5. The Spatial Logic of the New Culture: Modernity and Its Completion --
6. Conclusion: Toward a Production of Anthropological Space.


This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an imaginative thinker

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