Lee, Gregory B., <br/><br/>
China Imagined :  From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power / 
Gregory B. Lee. 
 - xxi, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, maps ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index. 
<br/><br/> If 'China', as Lee argues, is a product of Westernisation, then the West is itself in a process of becoming China. How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by 16th-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s. 'China Imagined' is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1787380165 9781787380165 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018287733 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB8H2130  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019055373  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Acculturation--China.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--History.<br/>China--Civilization.<br/>China.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS735  / .L3875 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>951  / LEE