
Xin Fan, "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Origins of World History in China
This book is I guess fundamentally it is a book about the formation of world historical discipline in China. The first chapter talks about the end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century. So that's something I was trying to do in this project. That is, I would like to pinpoint to the beginning of world history discipline in China and how print capitalism had a lot to do with its rise.
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