@article{1481724,
      recid = {1481724},
      author = {Wang, Hui, and Huters, Theodore,},
      title = {The Politics of Imagining Asia /},
      pages = {1 online resource (368 p.)},
      abstract = {In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts  some of the major issues concerning modern China and the  status quo of contemporary Chinese thought. The book's  overarching theme is the possibility of an alternative  modernity that does not rely on imported conceptions of  Chinese history and its legacy. Wang Hui argues that  current models, based largely on Western notions of empire  and the nation-state, fail to account for the richness and  diversity of pre-modern Chinese historical practice. At the  same time, he refrains from offering an exclusively Chinese  perspective and placing China in an intellectual ghetto.  Navigating terrain on regional language and politics, he  draws on China's unique past to expose the inadequacies of  European-born standards for assessing modern China's  evolution. He takes issue particularly with the way in  which nation-state logic has dominated politically charged  concerns like Chinese language standardization and "The  Tibetan Question." His stance is critical - and often  controversial - but he locates hope in the kinds of  complex, multifaceted arrangements that defined China and  much of Asia for centuries. The Politics of Imagining Asia  challenges us not only to re-examine our theories of "Asia"  but to reconsider what "Europe" means as well. As Theodore  Huters writes in his introduction, "Wang Hui's concerns  extend beyond China and Asia to an ambition to rethink  world history as a whole."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1481724},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061354},
}