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Author Wang, Hui, 1959- author.

Title China from empire to nation-state / Wang Hui ; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill
Published Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 179 pages)
Contents Translator's introduction -- China from empire to nation-state -- Two narratives of China and their derivative forms -- The empire/nation-state binary and European "world history" -- Heavenly principle/universal principle and history -- China's modern identity and the transformation of empire
Summary [Description]This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui's Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Civilization -- Philosophy
SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- Philosophy
Subject China
Form Electronic book
Author Hill, Michael (Michael Gibbs), translator.
ISBN 9780674736306
0674736303
Other Titles Xian dai Zhongguo si xiang de xing qi. Di guo yu guo jia. English