Wang Hui is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History at Tsinghua University and founding Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences. His books include China’s Twentieth Century, China from Empire to Nation-State, The Politics of Imagining Asia, and China’s New Order. Michael Gibbs Hill is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at William & Mary and author of Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture.
It is continually rewarding, offering up new avenues of inquiry and
revisiting links between Chinese modernity and the country’s
imperial history. Three centuries on from Kangxi, there are still
plenty of blanks in the map of modern China. For anglophone
readers, this very overdue translation helps us see the lie of the
land.
*Times Literary Supplement*
The present book is an erudite, stimulating, thought provoking,
nuanced, but highly condensed overture to Wang’s ambitious macro
history of the formation of Chinese intellectual modernity.
Sensitive to both continuities and disruptions, Wang engages
traditional thought as well as Western and Japanese scholarly
discourse… It illuminates 21st-century Chinese discourse and
provides ample food for thought for scholars grappling with
interpreting modern and premodern Chinese intellectual history.
*Choice*
China from Empire to Nation-State, a stellar contribution to
intellectual history, does something very rare: it enriches and
expands our vocabulary. There will be no greater incentive to study
the political and philosophical traditions of China—and of the
non-West in general—than this consistently illuminating and bracing
book.
*Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire: The
Intellectuals Who Remade Asia*
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