| Description |
xi, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Awakening the Beast -- 1. Awakening and Being Awakened -- 2. One World, One China: From Ethical Awakening to National Emancipation -- 3. One China, One Nation: The Unequal Treatise of Ethnography -- 4. One Nation, One State: "Feudalism" and Social Revolution -- 5. One State, One Party: Liberal Politics and the Party-State -- 6. One Party, One Voice: The Nationalist Propaganda Bureau -- 7. Awakening Inc.: Government, Party, and Army Propaganda Institutions -- Conclusion: Representing Class and Nation |
| Summary |
This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China "woke up" in this century. Fiction and fashion, architecture and autobiography, take their places alongside politics and history, and the reader is asked to move about among writers, philosophers, ethnographers, revolutionaries, and soldiers who would seem to have little in common. Rumor is sometimes taken as seriously as truth, novels are consulted as frequently as documents, and dreams are given a prominence normally reserved for facts in the writing of history. This book follows the legend of China's awakening from its origins in the European imagination, to its transmission to China and its encounter with a lyrical Chinese tradition of ethical awakening, to its incorporation and mobilization in a mass movement designed to wake up everyone. The idea of a national awakening crossed all discursive boundaries to make room for nationalist politics in personal culture and helped to conscript personal culture into service of the revolutionary state. The book focuses on the Nationalist movement in south China, highlighting the role of Sun Yat-sen as director of awakenings in the Nationalist Revolution and the place of Mao Zedong as his successor in the politics of mass awakening. Of special interest is the previously untold story of Mao's role in the Nationalist Propaganda Bureau, showing Mao as a master of propaganda and discipline, rather than as peasant movement activist |
| Analysis |
China History 1912-1928 |
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China History 1928-1937 |
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Geschichte 1912-1928 |
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Intellectuals China History 20th century |
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Intellectuals History 20th century China |
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Nationalism China History 20th century |
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Nationalism History 20th century China |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-438) and index |
| Subject |
Intellectuals -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Nationalism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- 1912-1928. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024106
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China -- History -- 1928-1937. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024115
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China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024107
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| LC no. |
96000565 |
| ISBN |
0804726590 (alk. paper) |
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0804733376 |
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