A critical examination of the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China.

"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that "China"--and its 5,000 years of unified history--is a natio

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the

With Chinese nationalism a vital ingredient of both the domestic politics of the People's Republic of China and its international relations, this book explores

Through an investigation of 20th-century Chinese student protest, Lanza considers the marriage of the cultural and the political, the intellectual and the quoti