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 sixteenth-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. China's early history describes a multilingual space, ruled by a homogeneous elite with its own minority culture--a far cry from Maoism's national mass culture, or Xi Jinping's state-controlled digital society today.
Gregory Lee traces this complex, diverse entity's evolution since the Opium Wars into a China made in 'our' image. Today, it is a great power integral to the global system, whether it comes to climate change, security or inequality. Given this rapid convergence with the West, Xi's China holds up a mirror to our own nations. Trump's America, Putin's Russia and post-Brexit Europe all betray echoes of 'the Chinese Dream'. If China is a product of Westernization, is it now the West's turn to become China?
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Hurst et Company

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Oxford University Press USA, London, 2018

Memory of the World

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Cover 1
Half-title 3
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
List of Illustrations 9
Maps 11
Chronology 15
Prefatory Note 19
Acknowledgments 21
Part One: From China-Before-Chinato China the Nation 25
Introduction 27
1. What and When is China? 37
2. Zhongguo and the Historic Vocabulary of Nationalism 45
3. China, its Authorities and the National Imaginary 57
4. Women in Nationalism’s Snare 65
5. Illiteracy and the Cultural Imaginary 73
6. Chinese Language? 77
7. The Making of a National Language 97
8. China-Before-China Revisited 129
Part Two: China Becoming a Spectacular Power 133
9. Reading Chinese 135
10. Versailles 143
11. Western ‘Values’? 147
12. Modern, Modernity, Modernization: Equivalence, Totalization and Belonging 153
13. China and the Global Technologico-Economic System 173
14. Xi’s ‘China Dream’, the Technological Nightmare and ‘Hoodlum Diplomacy’ 187
15. Towards a Conclusion 195
16. Coda 203
Notes 215
Bibliography 237
Index 247

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. Gregory B. Lee. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 213-221) And Index.

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