Reshaping China: The Concept of the Chinese Nation in Modern Times by Xingtao Hu

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In Reshaping China, Huang Xingtao explores the origins, evolution, and dissemination of the concept of the 'Chinese nation' during the late Qing and Republican periods and analyzes its place in China's intellectual history.

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This book is the first and only English-language edition of Huang Xingtao's Reshaping China, translated by Lane J. Harris and Mei Chun.In this landmark text, Huang Xingtao uses a cultural approach to the history of ideas. He traces the complex contours in the discursivedebates around the concept of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu) from its origins in the late Qing; through the pivotal momentof the 1911 Revolution; into the contentious revolutionary upheavals of the 1920s, amidst the national crisis brought on by Japaneseinvasions in the 1930s; and culminating in the widespread acceptance of the concept during the Civil War. By the late 1940s, the Chinesenation came to represent the idea that all peoples within the country, whatever their ethnicity, were equal citizens who shared commongoals and aspirations.

Author Biography

Huang Xingtao, Ph.D. (1992), Beijing Normal University, is Executive Director of the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University andProfessor and Dean of the School of History at Renmin University in China. He is a cultural and intellectual historian of late imperialand modern Chinese history.Lane J. Harris, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Chair and Gordon Poteat Professor of History and Asian Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Among his recent publications is The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History (Brill, 2018).Mei Chun, Ph.D. (2005), Washington University in Saint Louis, is the author of The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China(Brill, 2011) and several articles in the journals Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR); Asia Major; and Renditions.

Table of Contents

Preface1 The Gestation of the 'Chinese Nation' in the Qing Dynasty 1 Continuity and Change: the 'Chinese Identity' of Manchus in the Qing 2 New Intellectuals Resources: the Formation of the Modern Concept of the 'Nation' in China 3 The Creation of the Concept of the 'Greater Nation' 4 Seeking the 'Great Harmony': the Constitutional Movement and the Equality of Nations—Concepts of the Nation among Manchu Officials and Bannermen in Japan2 Spreading the Concept of the Modern Chinese Nation 1 The Founding of the Republic and the Arrival of the Concept of the Modern Chinese Nation 2 The Gradual Dissemination of the Concept of the Modern 'Chinese Nation' after the May Fourth Movement3 Strengthening and Deepening the 'Chinese Nation' as a Symbol of Identity 1 The Nanjing National Government and the Strengthening of the 'Chinese Nation' as a Symbol of Identity 2 The Japanese Invasion and the Deepening of the Identity of the 'Chinese Nation': Discourses on 'The Revival of the Chinese Nation' 3 'National Heroes,' 'Hanjian,' and Writing the 'Chinese Nation' into History Textbooks4 The Popularity of the Modern 'Chinese Nation' during the Total War with Japan 1 The Dissemination of the Modern 'Chinese Nation' and Expressions of Its Identity in Multiple Media 2 Pleas and Debates about the Idea of a Monoethnic 'Chinese Nation' 3 Putting the 'Chinese Guozu' into the Constitution and Rui Yifu's Interpretation of It 4 The Communist Party on the 'Chinese Nation' and Its Interactions with Other Parties5 Conclusion: Rethinking the Characteristics and Identity of the Modern 'Chinese Nation' 1 Historicity and the Composite Nature of the 'Nation': Idiosyncrasies in the Identity of the Modern 'Chinese Nation' 2 'Single' or 'Plural'? 'Constructed' or 'Evolutionary'? 3 Final ThoughtsAppendix: List of NamesBibliographyIndex

Details ISBN900469689X Author Chun Mei Publisher Brill Series Ideas, History, and Modern China Year 2024 ISBN-13 9789004696891 Format Hardcover Imprint Brill Place of Publication Leiden Country of Publication Netherlands Translated from Chinese Alternative 9789004696907 Series Number 32 Audience Professional & Vocational Subtitle The Concept of the Chinese Nation in Modern Times DEWEY 305.800951 Pages 502 Publication Date 2024-09-12 We've got this

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