TY - BOOK ID - 5296861 TI - A translucent mirror : history and identity in Qing imperial ideology PY - 1999 SN - 0520234243 0520234243 0520215664 PB - Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press, DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - Nationalisme KW - China KW - Chine KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - S06/0205 KW - S04/0680 KW - S02/0200 KW - China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Qing KW - China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 KW - China: General works--Civilization and culture KW - Nationalism -- China. KW - China -- Politics and government -- 1644-1912. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5296861 AB - "In this exploration of the origins of nationalism and concepts of racial identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the shifting ideologies of a large, early modern land-based empire, the Qing (1636-1912). Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Crossley argues that motifs introduced under the Qing in the eighteenth century - part of the crystallizing categories of identity that the Qing themselves promoted - continue to distort the modern understanding of Qing origins. What has often been repudiated by nationalist foes of empire, it turns out, is frequently itself a creation of empire."--Jacket. ER -