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Article: Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 2004
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Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Rebecca E. Karl. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 314 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper).
By the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism in the industrial world neared full maturity, muscular and confident about a modern country's place in the burgeoning and competitive global milieu. Yet even before World War I generated serious doubt about the immediate future, these industrial nations were often boldly operating as much on intuition and impulse as on sturdy reason and cold calculation, given their lack of lengthy experience in the world of "new" ...