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Reshaping China
The Concept of the Chinese Nation in Modern Times
Series: - Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume: 32
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This book is the first and only English-language edition of Huang Xingtaoâs Reshaping China, translated by Lane J. Harris and Mei Chun.
In this landmark text, Huang Xingtao uses a cultural approach to the history of ideas. He traces the complex contours in the discursive debates around the concept of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu) from its origins in the late Qing; through the pivotal moment of the 1911 Revolution; into the contentious revolutionary upheavals of the 1920s, amidst the national crisis brought on by Japanese invasions in the 1930s; and culminating in the widespread acceptance of the concept during the Civil War. By the late 1940s, the Chinese nation came to represent the idea that all peoples within the country, whatever their ethnicity, were equal citizens who shared common goals and aspirations.
In this landmark text, Huang Xingtao uses a cultural approach to the history of ideas. He traces the complex contours in the discursive debates around the concept of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu) from its origins in the late Qing; through the pivotal moment of the 1911 Revolution; into the contentious revolutionary upheavals of the 1920s, amidst the national crisis brought on by Japanese invasions in the 1930s; and culminating in the widespread acceptance of the concept during the Civil War. By the late 1940s, the Chinese nation came to represent the idea that all peoples within the country, whatever their ethnicity, were equal citizens who shared common goals and aspirations.
Huang Xingtao, Ph.D. (1992), Beijing Normal University, is Executive Director of the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University and Professor and Dean of the School of History at Renmin University in China. He is a cultural and intellectual historian of late imperial and modern Chinese history.
Lane J. Harris, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Chair and Gordon Poteat Professor of History and Asian Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Among his recent publications is The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History (Brill, 2018).
Mei Chun, Ph.D. (2005), Washington University in Saint Louis, is the author of The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China (Brill, 2011) and several articles in the journals Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR); Asia Major; and Renditions.
Lane J. Harris, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Chair and Gordon Poteat Professor of History and Asian Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Among his recent publications is The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History (Brill, 2018).
Mei Chun, Ph.D. (2005), Washington University in Saint Louis, is the author of The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China (Brill, 2011) and several articles in the journals Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR); Asia Major; and Renditions.
Preface
1 The Gestation of the âChinese Nationâ in the Qing Dynasty
â1âContinuity and Change: the âChinese Identityâ of Manchus in the Qing
â2âNew Intellectuals Resources: the Formation of the Modern Concept of the âNationâ in China
â3âThe Creation of the Concept of the âGreater Nationâ
â4âSeeking the âGreat Harmonyâ: the Constitutional Movement and the Equality of NationsâConcepts of the Nation among Manchu Officials and Bannermen in Japan
2 Spreading the Concept of the Modern Chinese Nation
â1âThe Founding of the Republic and the Arrival of the Concept of the Modern Chinese Nation
â2âThe Gradual Dissemination of the Concept of the Modern âChinese Nationâ after the May Fourth Movement
3 Strengthening and Deepening the âChinese Nationâ as a Symbol of Identity
â1âThe Nanjing National Government and the Strengthening of the âChinese Nationâ as a Symbol of Identity
â2âThe Japanese Invasion and the Deepening of the Identity of the âChinese Nationâ: Discourses on âThe Revival of the Chinese Nationâ
â3ââNational Heroes,â âHanjian,â and Writing the âChinese Nationâ into History Textbooks
4 The Popularity of the Modern âChinese Nationâ during the Total War with Japan
â1âThe Dissemination of the Modern âChinese Nationâ and Expressions of Its Identity in Multiple Media
â2âPleas and Debates about the Idea of a Monoethnic âChinese Nationâ
â3âPutting the âChinese Guozuâ into the Constitution and Rui Yifuâs Interpretation of It
â4âThe Communist Party on the âChinese Nationâ and Its Interactions with Other Parties
5 Conclusion: Rethinking the Characteristics and Identity of the Modern âChinese Nationâ
â1âHistoricity and the Composite Nature of the âNationâ: Idiosyncrasies in the Identity of the Modern âChinese Nationâ
â2ââSingleâ or âPluralâ? âConstructedâ or âEvolutionaryâ?
â3âFinal Thoughts
Appendix: List of Names
Bibliography
Index
Scholars, students, and institutions interested in modern Chinese history and the intellectual and cultural history of China.