Staging the World - 9780822328520

Staging the WorldChinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century\nAuthor(s): Rebecca E. Karl\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822328520, 978-0822328520\nSynopsis\nIn Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between Chinas defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese identification with what we now call the Third World first made the modern world visible as a totality and that the key components of Chinese nationalist discourse developed in reference to this worldview. \nThe emergence of Chinese nationalism during this period is often portrayed as following from Chinas position vis--vis Japan and the West. Karl has mined the archives of the late Qing period to discern the foci of Chinese intellectuals from 1895 to 1911 .