China Imagined: From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power

If 'China', as Lee argues, is a product of Westernisation, then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by 16th-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s. 'China Imagined' is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state.

• | Author: Gregory B. Lee
• | Publisher: Hurst
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1787380165
• | ISBN-13: 9781787380165