Situated Interpretations of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Cosmopolitanism: Revisiting the Writings of Liang in the Encounter Between Worlds
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Situated Interpretations of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Cosmopolitanism : Revisiting the Writings of Liang in the Encounter Between Worlds. / Zhang, Chenchen.
I: Journal of Historical Sociology, Bind 27, Nr. 3, 2014, s. 343-360.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Situated Interpretations of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Cosmopolitanism
T2 - Revisiting the Writings of Liang in the Encounter Between Worlds
AU - Zhang, Chenchen
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The idea of the nation has been considered to have delivered political modernity from its native Europe to the rest of the world. The same applies, though more implicitly, to those paradoxes inherent to the nationalist ideology – that between universalism and national particularity and that between liberal nationalism and imperialism. This article seeks to complicate these theses by looking at the interpretations of nationalism, imperialism, and cosmopolitanism provided by Liang Qichao, one of the most influential Chinese intellectuals in early twentieth century, during his exile in Japan when increasingly exposed to the encounter between worlds. This reading also engages with the wider debates on modernity/modernities in non-Western societies through showing that neither the “consumers of modernity” approach nor the “creative adaptations” approach can be easily applied here. I argue that the various tensions, contingencies and historical situatedness in Liang's accounts of the nation-state structure represent and constitute the paradox of the structure itself. They also shed light on contemporary debates about the limits of our political imagination in the misnamed “global politics” beyond the false opposition between nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
AB - The idea of the nation has been considered to have delivered political modernity from its native Europe to the rest of the world. The same applies, though more implicitly, to those paradoxes inherent to the nationalist ideology – that between universalism and national particularity and that between liberal nationalism and imperialism. This article seeks to complicate these theses by looking at the interpretations of nationalism, imperialism, and cosmopolitanism provided by Liang Qichao, one of the most influential Chinese intellectuals in early twentieth century, during his exile in Japan when increasingly exposed to the encounter between worlds. This reading also engages with the wider debates on modernity/modernities in non-Western societies through showing that neither the “consumers of modernity” approach nor the “creative adaptations” approach can be easily applied here. I argue that the various tensions, contingencies and historical situatedness in Liang's accounts of the nation-state structure represent and constitute the paradox of the structure itself. They also shed light on contemporary debates about the limits of our political imagination in the misnamed “global politics” beyond the false opposition between nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Intellectual history
KW - Nationalism
KW - cosmopolitism
KW - Modernity
KW - multiple modernities
KW - Postcolonialism
KW - East Asia
KW - China
KW - Liang Qichao
U2 - 10.1111/johs.12058
DO - 10.1111/johs.12058
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 343
EP - 360
JO - Journal of Historical Sociology
JF - Journal of Historical Sociology
SN - 0952-1909
IS - 3
ER -
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