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03001aam a2200457 i 4500 001 0EABD74471B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210218010021 008 200311t20202020ctuabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300257813 020 $a 9780300257816 020 $a 9780300234824 020 $a 0300234821 035 $a (OCoLC)1143626443 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d SINLB $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d OCLCO $d GZN $d SILO 043 $a ao----- $a ao----- 050 4 $a DS734.7 $b .H39 2020 082 04 $a 951.0072 $2 23 100 1 $a Hayton, Bill, $e author. 245 14 $a The invention of China / $c Bill Hayton. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 20 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The invention of China -- The invention of sovereignty -- The invention of the Han race -- The invention of Chinese history -- The invention of Chinese nation -- The invention of Chinese language -- The invention of a national territory -- The inventio n of maritime claim -- Conclusion -- Dramatis personae -- Notes -- A guide to further reading -- Index. 520 $a "China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitical problems--the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea--were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reformers and revolutionaries adopted foreign ideas to "invent' a new vision of China. By asserting a particular, politicized version of the past the government bolstered its claim to a vast territory stretching from the Pacific to Central Asia. Ranging across history, nationhood, language, and territory, Hayton shows how the Republic's reworking of its past not only helped it to justify its right to rule a century ago--but continues to motivate and direct policy today." -- Page [4] of cover. 651 0 $a China $x Political aspects. $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Collective memory $z China. 651 0 $a China $x Politics and government. 651 0 $a China $x Claims. 651 0 $a China $x Boundaries. 651 0 $a South China Sea $x Boundaries. 651 0 $a China $x History. 650 7 $a Boundaries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00837076 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a South China Sea. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244526 655 7 $a Claims. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01774244 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317014426.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0EABD74471B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search