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Book SynopsisThough the perceptions and concerns of these thinkers form the basis of Staging the World, this title begins by examining a 1904 Shanghai production of an opera about a fictional partition of Poland and its modern reincarnation as an ethno-nation.
Trade Review“
Staging the World fundamentally challenges the conventional assumptions of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century intellectual history and proposes a creative, alternative imagining of the historiography of modern China. This is a rare work of intellectual ambition and righteous moral sense.”—Lionel M. Jensen, author of
Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization“Rebecca Karl not only explores an exciting period in Chinese intellectual history but also provides an alternative mapping of global relations based on a constellation of common subordinated nations. Those who, like me, are not specialists of Chinese history will find this vision of the world from below a refreshing revelation.”—Michael Hardt, author of
Empire (with Antonio Negri)
Table of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgments
Part I
1. Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on Modern Chinese Nationalism
2. Staging the World
Part II
3. Deterritorializing Politics: The Pacific and Hawaii as Chinese National Space
4. Recognizing Colonialism: The Philippines and Revolution
5. Promoting the Ethnos: The Boer War and Discourses of the People
Part III
6. Performing on the World Stage in Asia
7. Re-creating China’s World
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
