In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts some of
the major issues concerning modern China and the status quo of
contemporary Chinese thought.
The book s overarching theme is the possibility of an
alternative modernity that does not rely on imported conceptions of
Chinese history and its legacy. Wang Hui argues that current
models, based largely on Western notions of empire and the
nation-state, fail to account for the richness and diversity of
pre-modern Chinese historical practice. At the same time, he
refrains from offering an exclusively Chinese perspective and
placing China in an intellectual ghetto. Navigating terrain on
regional language and politics, he draws on China s unique past to
expose the inadequacies of European-born standards for assessing
modern China s evolution. He takes issue particularly with the way
in which nation-state logic has dominated politically charged
concerns like Chinese language standardization and The Tibetan
Question. His stance is critical and often controversial but he
locates hope in the kinds of complex, multifaceted arrangements
that defined China and much of Asia for centuries.
"The Politics of Imagining Asia" challenges us not only to
re-examine our theories of Asia but to reconsider what Europe means
as well. As Theodore Huters writes in his introduction, Wang Hui s
concerns extend beyond China and Asia to an ambition to rethink
world history as a whole.
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