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Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China
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Linear history and the nation-state Bifurcating linear histories in China and India as discussed by the authors, the campaigns against religion and the return of the repressed secret brotherhood and revolutionary discourse in China's Republican revolution the genealogy of Fengjian or feudalism - narratives of civil society and state provincial narratives of the nation - federalism and centralism in modern China critics of modernity in India and ChinaAbstract:
Linear history and the nation-state Bifurcating linear histories in China and India the campaigns against religion and the return of the repressed secret brotherhood and revolutionary discourse in China's Republican revolution the genealogy of Fengjian or feudalism - narratives of civil society and state provincial narratives of the nation - federalism and centralism in modern China critics of modernity in India and China.read more
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Europe’s new bildungsbürger? : Chinese migrants in search of a pure land
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TL;DR: The recent wave of the emigration of well-to-do Chinese from the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been attracting attention as mentioned in this paper, and these individuals go abroad to seek a better...
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"Go west young man": using navigational technologies to find oneself.
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