Inventing the Nation

By Henrietta Harrison

Book Overview

This book argues that China as it exists today was invented through the construction of a modern state. It describes the attitudes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Chinese towards identity and ethnicity and how these interacted with the structure of the state. It then describes the development of a new culture as part of the efforts to build a modern nation state that could resist the Western imperial powers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340741341
• ISBN13: 9780340741344
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"