Gregory Lee
China Imagined
Gregory Lee · 2018
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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.
Book details
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- C. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 231
- ISBN
- 9781787380165
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