TY - BOOK AU - Xiaobing Tang AU - Xiaobing Tang TI - Global space and the nationalist discourse of modernity : : the historical thinking of Liang Qichao SN - 9780804725835 U1 - 951.0350 TAN PY - 1996/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - : Stanford University Press KW - History KW - Historiography KW - Liang, Qichao, -- 1873-1929 N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -