What is "Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response t

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This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has s

From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of

This work chronicles the history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989.