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100 1 $aDuara, Prasenjit.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86856671
245 10 $aRescuing history from the nation :$bquestioning narratives of modern China /$cPrasenjit Duara.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1995.
300 $ax, 275 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-257) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tLinear History and the Nation-state --$g2.$tBifurcating Linear Histories in China and India --$g3.$tThe Campaigns against Religion and the Return of the Repressed --$g4.$tSecret Brotherhood and Revolutionary Discourse in China's Republican Revolution --$g5.$tThe Genealogy of Fengjian or Feudalism: Narratives of Civil Society and State --$g6.$tProvincial Narratives of the Nation: Federalism and Centralism in Modern China --$g7.$tCritics of Modernity in India and China.
520 $aPrasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationships among the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts.
520 8 $aThe backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational levels.
520 8 $aIn a series of closely linked case studies, he considers such examples as the very different histories produced by Chinese nationalist reformers and partisans of popular religions, and the conflicting narratives of statist nationalists and of advocates of federalism in early twentieth-century China. He demonstrates the necessity of incorporating contestation, appropriation, repression, and the return of the repressed subject into any account of the past that will be meaningful to the present.
520 8 $aDuara demonstrates how to write histories that resist being pressed into the service of the national subject in its progress - or stalled progress - toward modernity.
651 0 $aChina$xHistoriography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100544
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
650 0 $aCivilization, Oriental.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026494
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