China from Empire to Nation-State

by Wang Hui and Hui Wang

This translation of the Introduction to Wang Hui's Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day, and along the way challenges the West to rethink some of its most basic assumptions about what it means to be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674046951
• ISBN13: 9780674046955
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.8"