The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China
The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China examines changing ideas of identity, governance, and modernity. Kate Merkel-Hess focuses on the relationship between rural life and state formation, presenting a historical study of how the self and state were reimagined during Republican China.
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The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China explores changing ideas of identity and governance during Republican China.
Kate Merkel-Hess examines the relationship between the rural world, modernity, and the formation of the state.
The book considers how concepts of the self and state were reconstructed within a significant period of Chinese history.
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