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Postcolonialism and the Artifice of History: a Dipesh Chakrabarti Reader

Editor-in-chief Zhang Songren Chen Guangxing Gao Shiming

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In the development process of Indian history and the formation of India's modern democratic system, how did the common people play their natural and potential "political" role? Starting from the concept of the magazine "Common People Studies" and related research, Chakrabarty elaborated on the above themes in five articles included in this collection.

Historical Consciousness and National Identity: the Duara Reader

Editor-in-chief Zhang Songren Chen Guangxing Gao Shiming

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"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.