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Reshaping China

The Concept of the Chinese Nation in Modern Times

By: Xingtao Huang

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Reshaping China

The Concept of the Chinese Nation in Modern Times

By: Xingtao Huang

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 discursive debates around the concept of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu) from its origins in the late Qing; through the pivotal moment of the 1911 Revolution; into the contentious revolutionary upheavals of the 1920s, amidst the national crisis brought on by Japanese invasions in the 1930s; and culminating in the widespread acceptance of the concept during the Civil War. By the late 1940s, the Chinese nation came to represent the idea that all peoples within the country, whatever their ethnicity, were equal citizens who shared common goals and aspirations.

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520

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BRILL

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9004696903

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9789004696907

A Cultural History of the Chinese Character “Ta (她, She)”

Invention and Adoption of a New Feminine Pronoun

By: Huang Xingtao

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A Cultural History of the Chinese Character “Ta (她, She)”

Invention and Adoption of a New Feminine Pronoun

By: Huang Xingtao

This book offers a thorough examination of the history of a Chinese female pronoun – the Chinese character "Ta (她, She)" and demonstrates how the invention and identification of this new word is inextricably intertwined with matters of sociocultural politics. The Chinese character Ta for the third-person feminine singular pronoun was introduced in the late 1910s when the voices of women’s liberation rang out in China. The invention and dissemination of this word not only reflected an ideological gendering of the Chinese script but also provoked heated academic and popular debate well into the 1930s. Thus, the history of Ta provides a prism through which to explore modern Chinese history. The author provides an ambitious and informed examination of how Ta was invented and promoted in relation to the gender equality movement, the politics of neologism, and other domestic elements and international catalysts. This book is the first major work to survey Ta’s creation. It draws on diverse sources, including interviews with eight historians who experienced the popularisation of Ta as youths in the 1930s and 40s. This book will be an essential read for students and scholars of East Asian Studies, Chinese Cultural History, and those who are interested in the history of China.

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298

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Taylor & Francis

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1000825868

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9781000825862

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China

Historical Diagnoses of the »Sick Man of East Asia«

By: Iwo Amelung

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Discourses of Weakness in Modern China

Historical Diagnoses of the »Sick Man of East Asia«

By: Iwo Amelung

Die Vorstellung, China sei ein "schwacher Staat", der in einer zunehmend darwinistisch konzipierten Welt nicht konkurrenzfähig sei, beherrschte vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, besonders seit dem verlorenen Krieg gegen Japan (1894/95), bis in die 1930er-Jahre den politischen Diskurs in China selbst wie auch in anderen Ländern der Welt. Der Band zeichnet diese "Untergangsgeschichte" des "kranken Mannes Asiens" nach und hilft somit, das Selbstverständnis und die Identität des heutigen China zu verstehen.

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Campus Verlag

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359343895X

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9783593438955

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Reshaping China

Reshaping China

A Cultural History of the Chinese Character “Ta (她, She)”

A Cultural History of the Chinese Character “Ta (她, She)”

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China

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