{"product_id":"staging-the-world-9780822328520","title":"Staging the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStaging the World\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e (with Antonio Negri)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u0026amp; Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Part I\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on Modern Chinese Nationalism \u003cbr\u003e 2. Staging the World \u003cbr\u003e Part II \u003cbr\u003e 3. Deterritorializing Politics: The Pacific and Hawaii as Chinese National Space \u003cbr\u003e 4. Recognizing Colonialism: The Philippines and Revolution \u003cbr\u003e 5. Promoting the Ethnos: The Boer War and Discourses of the People \u003cbr\u003e Part III \u003cbr\u003e 6. Performing on the World Stage in Asia \u003cbr\u003e 7. Re-creating China’s World \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Appendix \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038661771607,"sku":"9780822328520","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822328520.jpg?v=1750940963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/staging-the-world-9780822328520","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}