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Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937

By Jing Tsu

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781503625259
DOI
10.1515/9781503625259
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22166761 bytes)
Pages
344\344
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 22:03:59

Description

How often do we think of cultural humiliation and failure as strengths? Against prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this provocative book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success on failure. It reveals the exercise of sovereign power where we least expect it and shows how this is crucial to our understanding of a modern world of conflict, violence, passionate suffering, and cultural difference.

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