Saving the Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China

by Margherita Zanasi

Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911.

Challenging the assumption that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226978737
• ISBN13: 9780226978734
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"