The historiography of colonial modernity: Chinese history between Eurocentric hegemony and nationalism

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Notes

1. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure if Scientific Revolutions. 3rd Edition (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

2. Jiang Tingfu, ”Zhonggu jindai shi dagang„ [History of Modern China] (Unpublished manuscript, 1938).

3. Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006).

4. Arif Dirlik, Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism. (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2006).

5. Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995).

6. Edward W. Said, The World, The Text and the Critic. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), especially the introduction, ”Secular Criticism,„ pp. 1–30. The term Said preferred was ”worldliness.„

7. Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).

8. Andre Gunder Frank, Re‐Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. (Berkeley, CA: University of Californ ia Press, 1998); Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000)

9. For further discussion, see, Arif Dirlik, Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), Chapter 5, ”Reading Ashis Nandy: The Return of the Past, or Modernity with a Vengeance.„