Saving the Nation

Margherita Zanasi is associate professor in the Department of History at Louisiana State University.

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Margherita Zanasi

页数:336

出版时间:2006-10-2

价格:USD 55.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780226978734

图书标签:经济史海外中国研究民国历史民国经济研究民国史近代史棉业统制委员会

Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911.

Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China’s institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.

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三条写作线（经济政策、为汪翻案以及法西斯背景下的跨国比较）都不算新叙事论证方式，但作者结合得不错。汉语拼音水平有待提高

inner divide between 汪 & 蒋. the idea of 民族经济 in the crucial Nanjing decade

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inner divide between 汪 & 蒋. the idea of 民族经济 in the crucial Nanjing decade