Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao

by Xiaobing Tang

This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an imaginative thinker of worldwide significance. By...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804725837
• ISBN13: 9780804725835
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"