China imagined : from European fantasy to spectacular power

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China imagined : from European fantasy to spectacular power

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from European fantasy to spectacular power

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Gregory B. Lee

Creator

• Lee, Gregory B.,

Subject

• Acculturation -- China
• China -- Civilization
• China -- History

Language

eng

Summary

If 'China', as Lee argues, is a product of Westernisation, then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by 16th-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s. 'China Imagined' is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state. --

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• illustrations
• maps
• plates

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography