By examining various forms of historical production happening outside the mainstream of academic history in early 20th century China, this book shows how histor

DIVAn historical analysis of how the Chinese constructed their understandings of their place in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries./

A provocative account showing that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda

In 1894–1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental military ref

Studies China's "Ethnic classification project" (minzu shibie) of 1954, conducted in Yunnan province.