Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900-1927

by Michael Tsin

This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. In retracing various fragments of the city's history in this period, the book argues that modernist politics as practiced by the Nationalists and Communists represented a specific political rationality embedded in the context of a novel conception of the social realm.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748209
• ISBN13: 9780804748209
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"