After Empire, The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924, Peter Zarrow
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After Empire, The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924, Peter Zarrow
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eng
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After Empire
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dictionaries
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769344418
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Peter Zarrow
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ProQuest Ebook Central
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The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924
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From 1885-1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. What made it possible to suddenly imagine a world without the emperor?After Empire traces the formation of the modern Chinese idea of the state through the radical reform programs of the late Qing (1885-1911), the Revolu.--, Provided by Publisher
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