TY - BOOK ID - 2764622 TI - Nation work : Asian elites and national identities. AU - Brook, Timothy AU - Schmid, Andre PY - 1999 SN - 0472110322 0472087649 PB - Ann Arbor University of Michigan press DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Nationalisme KW - Elite (Sciences sociales) KW - History KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - S02/0100 KW - S02/0200 KW - S11/0708 KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Elites (Social sciences) KW - Leadership KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Social classes KW - Social groups KW - China: General works--China (and Asia) general surveys: before 1949 KW - China: General works--Civilization and culture KW - China: Social sciences--Elite KW - East Asia KW - Nationalism - East Asia - History. KW - Elite (Social sciences) - East Asia - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2764622 AB - As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and AndréSchmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations. Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form of Western imperialism. Yet, while the impetus for building a modern national identity may have come from the need to fashion a favorable place in a world system dominated by Western nations, those engaged in nationalist enterprises found their particular voices more often in relation to tensions within Asia than in relation to more generic tensions between Asia and the West. With topics ranging from public health measures in nineteenth-century Japan through textual scholarship of Tamil intellectuals, the willful division of Korea's history from China's, the development of China's cotton industry, and the meaning of "postnational-ism" for Chinese artists, the essays reveal the fascinating array of sites at which nation work can take place. This will be essential reading for historians and social scientists interested in Asia. Timothy Brook is Professor of History, Stanford University. AndréSchmid is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. ER -