Revisiting China's modernity[electronic resource] :ethnicity, religion, and nation

• 作者: Sun, Jiang,
• 出版: New York : Peter Lang 2020.
• 稽核項: xii, 307 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
• 標題: Collective memory , Knowledge, Sociology of China -- History. , Collective memory China. , Nationalism China -- History. , Ethnic relations. , China Ethnic relations. , Secret societies , Group identity China. , Religion. , History. , China Intellectual life. , Group identity , China , Knowledge, Sociology of , Intellectual life. , China Religion. , Nationalism , Secret societies China -- History.
• ISBN: 1433168766 , 9781433168765
• ISBN: 9781433175008 , 9781433175015
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• 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 摘要: "Investigating the nature of Chinese modernity from the perspectives of social and intellectual history and inspired by Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, my book intends to reveal the ambiguity of nation as a modern concept and thereupon open up a new possibility for the turn of China's national narratives. As it turns out, the definitions of nation as either an imagined community or an entity with a substantive cultural origin are both partially wrong in the Chinese context, since China had its distinctive socio-cultural system in pre-modern times and the binary mode of nationality is inadequate to interpret the complexity of Chinese society. In light of this complexity, this work explores the relationship between the Manchus and the Han Chinese throughout the Qing dynasty, examines the transmission and reproduction of modern knowledge, particularly that of race and nation, on the ground of China's reactions to the Western influence, and discusses how the supra-nationalist discourse of various religions succumbed to the homogenizing nature of nation state in modern China. To depict a general picture of "Chinese modernity" and avoid the risk of oversimplification, I combine the methodology of social history with that of intellectual history in this book, abandoning the East-West binary opposition and grouping all ten chapters into three parts that respectively approach Chinese modernity from a specific perspective. On this basis, it can be concluded that Chinese modernity, as a form of new knowledge, is produced out of the combination of a forward-thinking viewpoint and a fantasy about the modern age, which constitutes an inevitable path to China's "national liberation" from the entanglement of ethnicity and cultural traditions"--
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