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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1与传统叙述方式不同，作者发现一段“隐秘”的历史；2不受档案束缚和误导，考察政策在地方的具体落实情况；3不断谈古论今；4以当事人思维理解通敌行为和收到的具体成效；5拼音不太好，“关东军”变成“广东军”；6也许是有关汪政权资料有限，第七章未能使人尽兴