In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the intriguing case of Manchukuo--the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945--to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. He argues that Manchukuo, ...
Decolonization varied from country to country in shape and duration, and has been evaluated differently over time. But is it complete? What replaces colonial controls after independence? "Decolonization" is a collection of revisionist writings on the concept, moving away from a western analysis, towards the angle of vision of the former colonies.
This study offers a systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including a discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted the linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a ...
China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by ...
China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by ...
This work offers a systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, ...
China's history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. "The Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation" attempts to train our eyes to see the picture of China less as a self-contained entity, a 'geobody', than as part of a broader set of global and regional processes; from the 'outside-in'. It covers the major historical ...
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