TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tang, Xiaobing.
TI  - Global space and the nationalist discourse of modernity: the historical thinking of Liang Qichao
SN  - 9780804725835
U1  - 951.035TAN 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Liang, Qichao, 1873-1929
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-282) and index
N2  - This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an imaginative thinker of worldwide significance. By tracing the changes in Liang's conception of history, the author shows that global space inspired both Liang's longing for modernity and his critical reconceptualization of modern history. Spatiality, or the mode of determining spatial organization and relationships, offers a new interpretive category for understanding the stages in Liang's historical thinking
ER  -