TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Gregory B.
TI  - China Imagined: From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power 
SN  - 9781787380165
AV  - DS735 .L3875 2018
U1  - 951 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - C Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -