Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Politics of Imagining Asia 10
5. 2. How to Explain “China” and Its “Modernity”: Rethinking The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought 63
6. 3. Local Forms, Vernacular Dialects, and the War of Resistance against Japan: The “National Forms” Debate 95
7. 4. The “Tibetan Question” East and West: Orientalism, Regional Ethnic Autonomy, and the Politics of Dignity 136
8. 5. Okinawa and Two Dramatic Changes to the Regional Order 228
9. 6. Weber and the Question of Chinese Modernity 264
10. Notes 309
11. Credits 347
12. Index 349