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China (Paperback, New)
Series: Inventing the Nation
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Every rule invites an exception as proof of itself, and if nation
states were invented as a result of the rise of nationalism as an
ideology in the 19th century, China seems at first sight just such
a handy exception. Pre-modern China already had the features of a
nation state: a common language, culture and bureaucracy. What
occurred, the argument runs, was not the invention of a nation but
a transition between "culturalism" (a sense of China as the centre
of civilization) and nationalism. This study is a robust rebuttal
of that view. Nationhood was invented for China in ways inflected
by its experience of imperialism and colonialism but otherwise
similar to those that occurred elsewhere. The early 19th century
found Chinese people of all classes with a strong sense of identity
focused around the state. During the course of the century, a
series of military defeats created widespread awareness of the
world of nation states. Elite modernising responses to this threat
led to a division between popular nationalism and elite modern
nationalism. At the centre of modern nationalism lay the political
parties that had arisen in the early 20th century and that by the
1920s had succeeded in
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