China Imagined : From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power / Gregory B. Lee.
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TextPublisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2018Description: xxi, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1787380165; 9781787380165Subject(s): Acculturation -- China | China -- History | China -- Civilization | ChinaGenre/Form: History. DDC classification: 951 LOC classification: DS735 | .L3875 2018Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
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.
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