Gregory B. Lee is Professor of Chinese and Transcultural Studies at the University of Lyon. He has previously taught at SOAS, Cambridge, Chicago and Hong Kong universities and also worked as a China analyst at the BBC, broadcasting on Chinese and Hong Kong affairs. He is a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.
'As Gregory Lee shows, this debate has gripped the world’s
most populous country for more than a century.'
‘What is China? Where has it come from? What is the relationship
between a founding myth and national identity? Does it matter how
old China is? What is the relationship between national narrative,
authoritarianism and totalitarianism? Lee provides possible answers
in a Chinese context, but also elegantly stimulates questions
relevant to many other nations past and present.’
*Asian Affairs Journal*
This richly provocative text, written with verve and urgency, has
something to say to all scholars of China, past and present. Its
broad reach and moral grasp enable penetrating questions about
exactly what it is we think we are studying when we study
China.
*Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University
of Oxford, and author of 'Art in China'*
An erudite and trenchant analysis of a political, cultural, social,
ethnic, and linguistic world that has taken many shapes under
several different historical pressures. Each chapter contains a
wealth of information, presented clearly and vividly. One could not
wish for a better guide and interpreter than Gregory Lee.
*David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford
University*
A powerfully stimulating book exploring China from an impressively
diverse array of angles and disciplines. Lee shows that, far from
an ancient relic, China is a young, modern nation racing headlong
into the future. The chapters on language alone are worth their
weight in gold.
*Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature,
University of Pennsylvania*
'If there's one word to describe Gregory Lee's book, it's
iconoclastic. Bristling with ideas and insights leavened by his
vast knowledge and understanding of 'things Chinese', this sweeping
account lays the ground for a new reading of both China and the
Western imagination of it.'
*Michael Dutton, Professor of Politics, Goldsmiths University of
London, and author of 'Beijing Time'*
This fascinating work questions conventional thinking with a
complex analysis of modern and premodern Chinese history. Lee
situates contemporary China in its historical context of dispersed
and localised premodern empires, reconstituted as today's nation
through European perspectives and globalisation.
*Lu Tonglin, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of
Montreal*
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