What is it about?
China as a concept has not been put under much scrutiny and challenge until the recent postmodern and postcolonial theoretical discourse on nation and nationhood, and the radical skepticism about tradition and homogeneity. Some scholars have questioned whether China could have been a nation state before there was any nation state in Europe, and others have challenged the very notions of China and Chineseness. How do the Chinese themselves respond to such skepticism and challenge? How does one re-conceptualize China at the present time? By drawing on recent debates on such important issues, this essay tries to find some answers and offers some views from a Chinese perspective, while fully engaging Western theoretical discourses to attempt at an international dialogue and meaningful exchange.
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A distinguished Chinese scholar and intellectual historian, Ge Zhaoguang, discusses important issues such as nation, state, national identity, etc., in response to Western discourse from a Chinese perspective with knowledge and erudition.
Professor Longxi Zhang
City University of Hong Kong
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This page is a summary of: Re-conceptualizing China in our Time: From a Chinese Perspective, European Review, March 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s106279871400074x.
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