The Invention Of China 9781861081957 On the morning of the

On the morning of the 14th of October 2002

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The Invention Of China 9781861081957 On the morning of theIn this compelling and highly readable account, Hayton shows how China's present day geopolitical problems the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea were born in the struggle to create a modern nation state. He brings alive the fevered debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when reformers and revolutionaries adopted foreign ideas to "invent' a new vision of China. Ranging across history,