The politics of imagining Asia [electronic resource] / Wang Hui ; edited by Theodore Huters.
2011
DS509.3 .W28 2011eb
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Title
The politics of imagining Asia [electronic resource] / Wang Hui ; edited by Theodore Huters.
Author
Wang, Hui.
ISBN
9780674061354 electronic book
9780674055193
9780674055193
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 360 p.)
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DS509.3 .W28 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
950.072
Summary
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index.
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Table of Contents
The politics of imagining Asia
How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought
Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate
The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity
Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order
Weber and the question of Chinese modernity.
How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought
Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate
The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity
Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order
Weber and the question of Chinese modernity.