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Rescuing history from the nation: questioning narratives of modern China

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Linear history and the nation-state Bifurcating linear histories in China and India the campaigns against religion and the return of the repressed secret brotherhood and revolutionary discourse in China's Republican revolution the genealogy of Fengjian or feudalism - narratives of civil society and state provincial narratives of the nation - federalism and centralism in modern China critics of modernity in India and China.

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Key concepts: Feudalism, China, Modernity, Narrative, State (computer science), Federalism, Political science, Modern history