Format:
1 online resource (333 pages)
ISBN:
9780226978741
Content:
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 nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China's institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.
Content:
CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. Envisioning Modern China -- CHAPTER 1 China's Minzu Economy -- CHAPTER 2 The Rural Question: Identity, Modernity, and Peasants in China's Industrial Development -- PART II. Building the Corporativist State -- CHAPTER 3 The Politics of Reconstruction: Song Ziwen and the National Economic Council -- CHAPTER 4 The Cotton Control Commission and the Corporativist Organization of the Nation -- PART III. From Theory to Practice -- CHAPTER 5 Implementing Rural Reforms -- CHAPTER 6 Officials, Industrial Magnates, and Bureaucratic Capitalism -- PART IV. Defending Which Nation? -- CHAPTER 7 From Nationalism to Collaboration -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226978734
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780226978734
Language:
English
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