The Imagination of Empire: Civilizations, Ethnic Groups and Unfinished Communities
by Liang Zhan
About This Novel
With the end of the First World War, the wave of nationalism that began in the 17th and 18th centuries quickly swept across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The disintegration of empires and the process of nation-state construction went hand in hand. It was not until the early 1990s that it showed its decline. However, the 20th century is not so much the century of the so-called nation-state, but rather the history of the entanglement of empires and nation-states. Starting from the perspective of global history, this book selects several cases that occurred in this long historical process, and uses a combination of theory and history to reveal the many complex literary imagination factors that constitute today's popular theories of nationalism and empire, as well as the strong colonialism and liberal imperialism underlying these theoretical discussions.
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