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Title : Nation work : Asian elites and national identities Material Type: printed text Authors: Timothy Brook Editor ; Andre Schmid Editor Publisher: University of Michigan Press Publication Date: 2000 Pagination: 280 p. Size: Paperback ISBN (or other code): 978-0-472-08764-8 Price: gift Languages : English (eng) Abstract: As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and Andr? Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations.Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form of Western imperialism. Yet, while the impetus for building a modern national identity may have come from the need to fashion a favorable place in a world system dominated by Western nations, those engaged in nationalist enterprises found their particular voices more often in relation to tensions within Asia than in relation to more generic tensions between Asia and the West.With topics ranging from public health measures in nineteenth-century Japan through textual scholarship of Tamil intellectuals, the willful division of Korea's history from China's, the development of China's cotton industry, and the meaning of "postnational-ism" for Chinese artists, the essays reveal the fascinating array of sites at which nation work can take place.This will be essential reading for historians and social scientists interested in Asia.Timothy Brook is Professor of History, Stanford University. Andr? Schmid is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.(Product Description)Curricular : GE Record link: http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=20337 Nation work : Asian elites and national identities [printed text] / Timothy Brook Editor ; Andre Schmid Editor . - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000 . - 280 p. ; Paperback.
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Languages : English (eng)
Abstract: As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and Andr? Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations.Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form of Western imperialism. Yet, while the impetus for building a modern national identity may have come from the need to fashion a favorable place in a world system dominated by Western nations, those engaged in nationalist enterprises found their particular voices more often in relation to tensions within Asia than in relation to more generic tensions between Asia and the West.With topics ranging from public health measures in nineteenth-century Japan through textual scholarship of Tamil intellectuals, the willful division of Korea's history from China's, the development of China's cotton industry, and the meaning of "postnational-ism" for Chinese artists, the essays reveal the fascinating array of sites at which nation work can take place.This will be essential reading for historians and social scientists interested in Asia.Timothy Brook is Professor of History, Stanford University. Andr? Schmid is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.(Product Description)Curricular : GE Record link: http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=20337 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 32002000379782 DS515 N38 1999 Book Graduate Library General Shelf Available