Staging the World

Autorentext
Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China and Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History and co-translator (with Xueping Zhong) of Cai Xiang's Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, all also published by Duke University Press. She co-translated and coedited (with Lydia H. Liu and Dorothy Ko) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.

Klappentext
An historical analysis of how the Chinese constructed their understandings of their place in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


Zusammenfassung
Discusses how Chinese conceptions of nationalism were affected by the "discovery" of Hawaii as a centre of the Pacific, the Philippine revolution against the United States, and the relationship between nationality and ethnicity made apparent by the Boer War in South Africa.

Inhalt
Preface & Acknowledgments
Part I
> 1. Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on Modern Chinese Nationalism
2. Staging the World
Part II
3. Deterritorializing Politics: The Pacific and Hawaii as Chinese National Space
4. Recognizing Colonialism: The Philippines and Revolution
5. Promoting the Ethnos: The Boer War and Discourses of the People
Part III
6. Performing on the World Stage in Asia
7. Re-creating China’s World
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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