The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State : : Japan and China / / ed. by Joshua A. Fogel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Crossley, Pamela Kyle,; Howell, David L.,; Ikegami, Eiko,; Kirby, William C.,; Mair, Victor,; Perdue, Peter C.,; Ravina, Mark,; Roberts, Luke S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fogel, Joshua A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters with Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 6 illus.

Japan and China did not begin to emerge as unified political entities until the nineteenth century. Yet scholars and politicians persistently refer to "Japan" and "China" in discussions of earlier periods, as if the modern nation-state had long been established in these regions....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: The Teleology of the Nation-State
• Part One. The Emergence of a "Japan" and a "China"
• Chapter 1. The Emergence of Aesthetic Japan
• Chapter 2. The North (west) ern Peoples and the Recurrent Origins of the "Chinese" State
• Part Two. Bringing the State in
• Chapter 3. State-Making in Global Context: Japan in a World of Nation-States
• Chapter 4. When Did China Become China? Thoughts on the Twentieth Century
• Part Three. Nation and Nationality
• Chapter 5. Civilization and Enlightenment: Markers of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
• Chapter 6. Nationality and Difference in China: The Post-Imperial Dilemma
• Part Four. Locale, Nation, Empire
• Chapter 7. Cultivating Non-National Historical Understandings in Local History
• Chapter 8. Where Do Incorrect Political Ideas Come From? Writing the History of the Qing Empire and the Chinese Nation
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index