Kang Youwei Engages India

His Travel Narratives (1901-1902) and Predicaments of Civilization and Nation
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-59018-9
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Kang Youwei, one of the most famous intellectuals and modernisers of late 19th-century China. These travelogues offer insights into Kang’s perceptions of India, which influenced modern intellectual discourse on India in China. These perceptions not only had a great impact on the thinking of other intellectuals but were also responsible for the larger construct that China developed about India during the republican and post-liberation period. The texts provide meaning to many dilemmas and predicaments that enshrouded the concept of civilisation and its linkages with the modern concepts of nationalism and modernity in Asian countries such as China and India. They are a valuable prism in gauging the early 20th-century intellectual and Chinese moderniser mind as it grappled with the challenges and uncertainties of those times.

An important contribution to the study of Sino-Indian interactions, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of nation, nationalism, civilisation, empire, modern history, translation studies, Chinese Studies, and Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheel, Kamal

Sheel, Ranjana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Kamal Sheel is Professor (Retd.) of Chinese at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Ranjana Sheel is Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.