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Staging the World - Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Staging the World - Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
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In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of
nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between
China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the
proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this
historical moment a growing Chinese identification with what we now
call the Third World first made the modern world visible as a
totality and that the key components of Chinese nationalist
discourse developed in reference to this worldview. The emergence
of Chinese nationalism during this period is often portrayed as
following from China’s position vis- -vis Japan and the
West. Karl has mined the archives of the late Qing period to
discern the foci of Chinese intellectuals from 1895 to 1911 to
assert that even though the China/Japan/West triangle was crucial,
it alone is an incomplete—and therefore flawed—model of the
development of nationalism in China. Although the perceptions and
concerns of these thinkers form the basis of Staging the World,
Karl begins by examining a 1904 Shanghai production of an opera
about a fictional partition of Poland and its modern reincarnation
as an ethno-nation. By focusing on the type of dialogue this opera
generated in China, Karl elucidates concepts such as race,
colonization, globalization, and history. From there, she discusses
how Chinese conceptions of nationalism were affected by the
“discovery” of Hawai’i as a center of the Pacific, the
Philippine revolution against the United States, and the
relationship between nationality and ethnicity made apparent by the
Boer War in South Africa.
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