Name: The Invention Of China
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 9780300264807
Price: 165.0 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Bill Hayton
ISBN: 9780300264807

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Author: Bill Hayton

Paperback·Ages 18+·Historical Fiction

"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy). Bill Hayton tells the story of how 'China' came to think of itself as China- and what it means for our world today

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In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitical problems-the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea-were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. He brings alive the fevered debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when reformers and revolutionaries adopted foreign ideas to "invent' a new vision of China.

Ranging across history, nationhood, language, and territory, Hayton shows how a few radicals, often living in exile, adopted European beliefs about race and nation to rethink China's past and create a new future. He weaves together political and personal stories to show how Chinese nationalism emerged from the connections between east and west. These ideas continue to motivate and direct the country's policies into the twenty first century. By asserting a particular version of the past Chinese governments

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Format: Paperback
Reading age: 18+
Pages: 320
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 9780300264807

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