Historical Consciousness and National Identity: the Duara Reader
by Editor-in-chief Zhang Songren Chen Guangxing Gao Shiming
About This Novel
"Historical Consciousness and National Identity: Duara's Reader" contains five representative articles by Duara. Among them, the article "Redrawing Symbols: The Myth of Guandi" reveals the importance of myths and rituals as a means of communication in the imperial political system by studying the decline and destruction of the myth of Guandi and the historical transformation of China from the Qing Dynasty to the Communist Revolution; In the article "Critics of Modernity in China and India", by comparing the history of China and India, Duara examines another kind of discourse, the "lowercase" culture and civilization outside the context of the modernity-oriented, Western, Enlightenment history of civilization. Especially in the article "Historical Consciousness and National Identity," Duara focuses on examining how China transformed from a Confucian, imperial society into a modern nation-state, and what characteristics the Chinese empire possessed that contributed to its transformation compared with other non-Western societies.
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