China from Empire to Nation-State

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Hui Wang

页数:200

译者:Michael Gibbs Hill

出版时间:2014-10-14

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674046955

具体描述

This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day, and along the way challenges the West to rethink some of its most basic assumptions about what it means to be modern.

China from Empire to Nation-State exposes oversimplifications and distortions implicit in Western critiques of Chinese history, which long held that China was culturally resistant to modernization, only able to join the community of modern nations when the Qing Empire finally collapsed in 1912. Noting that Western ideas have failed to take into account the diversity of Chinese experience, Wang recovers important strains of premodern thought. Chinese thinkers theorized politics in ways that do not line up neatly with political thought in the West—for example, the notion of a “Heavenly Principle” that governed everything from the ordering of the cosmos to the structure of society and rationality itself. Often dismissed as evidence of imperial China’s irredeemably backward culture, many Neo-Confucian concepts reemerged in twentieth-century Chinese political discourse, as thinkers and activists from across the ideological spectrum appealed to ancient precedents and principles in support of their political and cultural agendas. Wang thus enables us to see how many aspects of premodern thought contributed to a distinctly Chinese vision of modernity.

作者简介

Wang Hui is Professor of Literature and History at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

目录信息

Translator’s Introduction
China from Empire to Nation-State
1. Two Narratives of China and Their Derivative Forms
2. The Empire/Nation-State Binary and European “World History”
3. Heavenly Principle/Universal Principle and History
4. China’s Modern Identity and the Transformation of Empire
Notes
Index
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教主其实很多想法，对中国史研究的脉络梳理比徒子徒孙不知道强到哪里去。但是很多时候还是流于空疏。

两颗星全是给翻译的，太不容易了~传送 http://vdisk.微博.com/s/yV7YJRX8GDuqc

教主其实很多想法，对中国史研究的脉络梳理比徒子徒孙不知道强到哪里去。但是很多时候还是流于空疏。

教主其实很多想法，对中国史研究的脉络梳理比徒子徒孙不知道强到哪里去。但是很多时候还是流于空疏。