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Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity - The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao (Hardcover)
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Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity - The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao (Hardcover)
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This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao
(1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural
critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based
on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to
function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was
not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but
also an imaginative thinker of worldwide significance. By tracing
the changes in Liang's conception of history, the author shows that
global space inspired both Liang's longing for modernity and his
critical reconceptualization of modern history. Spatiality, or the
mode of determining spatial organization and relationships, offers
a new interpretive category for understanding the stages in Liang's
historical thinking.
Liang's historical thinking culminated in a global imaginary of
difference, which became most evident in the shift from his earlier
proposal for a uniform national history to one that mapped
"cultural history." His reaffirmation of spatiality, a critical
concept overshadowed by the modernist obsession with time and
history, made it both necessary and possible for him to redesign
the project of modernity. Finally, the author suggests that the
reconciliation of anthropological space with historical time that
Liang achieved makes him abundantly contemporary with our own time,
both inextricably modern and postmodern.
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