China / Henrietta Harrison.
China / Henrietta Harrison.
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London : Arnold, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N951/132
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 290 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Part I. Pre-Modern Chinese Identity: 1. A common culture; 2. The Manchu empire -- Part II. Constructing a Modern Nation: 3. The world of nation states; 4. The creation of modern nationalism; 5. Ethnicity and modernity in the 1911 Revolution; 6. Nation, modernity and class -- Part III. Nationalism an...
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London : Arnold, 2001.
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England
Date Published
2001.
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Summary
Every rule invites an exception as proof of itself, and if nation states were invented as a result of the rise of nationalism as an ideology in the nineteenth century, China seems at first sight just such a handy exception. Pre-modern China already had the features of a nation state: a common language, culture and bureaucracy. What occurred, the ar...
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China / Henrietta Harrison.
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Inventing the nation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N951/132
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74Vvj5xXWMPy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvj5xXWMPy
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ISBN
0340741341 (PBK.)
9780340741337(cased) :
0340741333(cased) :
9780340741344(pbk.) :
0340741341(pbk.) :
9780340741337
0340741333
9780340741344 (PBK.)
9780340741344 (pbk.) :
0340741341 (pbk.) :
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951
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991015332619702626
