China imagined : from European fantasy to spectacular power /
If 'China,' as Lee argues, is a product of Westernization, then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed, eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'Ch...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Hurst & Company,
2018.
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| Summary: | If 'China,' as Lee argues, is a product of Westernization, then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed, eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by 16th-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s. 'China Imagined' is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1787380165 9781787380165 |