The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004260137 ISBN 13 : 9789004260139

Editeur : Brill, 2013

Synopsis

The papers collected in this volume congeal around a debate about the ways and extent of the dominance of linear time and progressive history and the concomitant delineation of the nation in Chinese and Japanese historiography. As China and Japan entered the global capitalist system of nation states, the Chinese and Japanese regimes implemented a number of reforms, which resulted in transformations that affected everyday experience. In the face of imperialism and the perceived threat of being split up, the Meiji and late Qing governments radically reoriented policies in order to become wealthy and powerful in the global arena. People not only began to experience time and space in new ways, but elites also were increasingly exposed to Western theories of history and concepts of nationhood, which became dominant. These changes contributed to the production of new types of historical consciousness and collective identity. The essays in this volume each provide a perspective on the complex ways in which imagining national and regional identity in East Asia were and continue to be enmeshed with visions of time and history. This book should be of interest to all those who are interested in nationalism, modernity in China and Japan, global capitalism and the politics of time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Viren Murthy, (Ph.D. 2007, University of Chicago), Assistant Professor in Transnational Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in Chinese and Japanese intellectual history and is especially interested in the critique of capitalist modernity and imagining Asian identity.

Axel Schneider, (Ph.D. 1994, Bochum University), is Professor of Modern Sinology at the University of Göttingen. He specializes in modern Chinese intellectual history, especially the history of historical writing and historical thinking.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004260137
• ISBN 13: 9789004260139
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Murthy Viren, Schneider Axel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible