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This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China woke up in this century. The book follows the legend of China s awakening from its origins in the European imagination, to its transmission to China and its encounters with a lyrical Chinese tradition of ethical awakening, to its incorporation and mobilization in a mass movement designed to wake up everyone. Fiction and fashion, architecture and autobiography, take their places alongside politics and history, and the reader is asked to move about among writers, philosophers, ethnographers, revolutionaries, and soldiers who would seem to have little in common.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Awakening China
• Subtitle: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution
• Author: John Fitzgerald
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• EAN: 9780804733373
• ISBN: 0804733376
• ID: 04716823
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 668 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 228 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 1998

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