Rescuing History from the Nation Questioning Narratives of Modern China

Name: Rescuing History from the Nation Questioning Narratives of Modern China
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ISBN: 9780226167220

ISBN-10: 0226167224

ISBN-13: 9780226167220

Edition: 1995

Authors: Prasenjit Duara

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Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts. The backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Linear History and the Nation-state



Bifurcating Linear Histories in China and India



The Campaigns against Religion and the Return of the Repressed



Secret Brotherhood and Revolutionary Discourse in China's Republican Revolution



The Genealogy of Fengjian or Feudalism: Narratives of Civil Society and State



Provincial Narratives of the Nation: Federalism and Centralism in Modern China



Critics of Modernity in India and China


Conclusion


References


Index