China Imagined :
Published by : C Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., (London :) Physical details: xxi, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm ISBN:9781787380165; 1787380165.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
If 'China', as Lee argues, is a product of Westernisation, then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by 16th-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s. 'China Imagined' is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state.
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