Chinese Whispers: what is it to be 'Chinese'?
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A Beginner's Guide to China
The book is a beginner's guide to the emergence of chinese nationalism. Every chapter begins with a modern day example of how these debates, which emerged in the late nineteenth and then carried on into the early twentieth century. The author pins a lot of what we know as modern chinese identity down to a group of reformers that were active at the end of the ching dynasty.
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