{"product_id":"nation-governance-and-modernity-in-china-9780804748209","title":"Nation Governance and Modernity in China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this elegantly written and meticulously researched study, Tsin uses a social history of early 20th-century Canton to explore the meaning and mechanisms of the political culture of modernity. One of the book's great strengths is Tsin's success in bringing social-historical and theoretical analyses together, using one to illuminate the other.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stanford University Press has produced yet another handsome volume, replete with photographs, a map, a graph, a character list, an extensive bibliography, and an index, all of which make this book a pleasure to use.\" * China Review International *\u003cbr\u003e\"For researchers carrying up-to-date toolkits into the Chinese past, Tsin's judicious analysis will be a model of clarity in exposition as well as a guide to the formation of China modernist discourses on national and social revolution.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tsin's book is well organized, refreshingly concise, and ... highly readable.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  1. In the name of society  2. Toward modernity  3. The contested nation  4. Privileging labor  The riddle of mobilization  Epilogue  Character list  Abbreviations  Notes  Bibliography  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405555507543,"sku":"9780804748209","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804748209.jpg?v=1730492817","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nation-governance-and-modernity-in-china-9780804748209","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}