52 research outputs found
Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750. By Odd Arne Westad. New York: Basic Books, 2012. xii, 260Â pp. $32.00 (cloth).
University of California Press eScholarship editions
In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, including Manchu, Korean, and Chinese archival materials, Crossley argues that distortions introduced in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century historical records have blinded scholars to the actual course of events in the early years of the dynasty. This groundbreaking study examines the relationship between the increasingly abstract ideology of the centralizing emperorship of the Qing and the establishment of concepts of identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, before the advent of nationalism in China.Concluding with a broad-ranging postscript on the implications of her research for studies of nationalism and nation-building throughout modern Chinese history, A Translucent Mirror combines a readable narrative with a sophisticated, revisionary look at China's history. Crossley's book will alter current understandings of the Qing emperorship, the evolution of concepts of ethnicity, and the legacy of Qing rule for modern Chinese nationalism
JAMES A. MILLWARD, RUTH W. DUNNELL, MARK C. ELLIOTT and PHILIPPE FORÊT (eds): New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde
White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire. By Wang Wensheng. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 352 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
A Translucent Mirror: History And Identity In Qing Imperial Ideology
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China: A Macro History. By Ray Huang. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988. xix, 277 pp. 12.50 (paper).
Peter Zarrow, After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 416. 27.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-804-77869-5).
Origins of the Modern Chinese State. By Philip A. Kuhn. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. viii, 162 pp. $18.95 (paper).
Chinese Nationalism in the late Qing Dynasty: Zhang Binglin as an Anti-Manchu Propagandist. By Kauko Laitinen. London: Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series #57), 1990. 209 pp. - Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution: Zhang Binglin and Confucianism. By Shimada Kenji; translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. 169 pp.
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