Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China

Review

"Tsin's book is well organized, refreshingly concise, and... highly readable " - Journal of Asian Studies "In this elegantly written and meticulously researched study, Tsin uses a social history of early twentieth-century Canton to explore the meaning and mechanisms of the political culture of modernity. One of the book's great strengths is Tsin's success in bringing soc...

Review

"Tsin's book is well organized, refreshingly concise, and... highly readable " - Journal of Asian Studies "In this elegantly written and meticulously researched study, Tsin uses a social history of early twentieth-century Canton to explore the meaning and mechanisms of the political culture of modernity. One of the book's great strengths is Tsin's success in bringing social-historical and theoretical analyses together, using one to illuminate the other." - Journal of Interdisciplinary History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Review

“For researchers carrying up-to-date toolkits into the Chinese past, Tsin’s judicious analysis will be a model of clarity in exposition as well as a guide to the formation of China modernist discourses on national and social revolution.”—Canadian Journal of History

“Tsin’s book is well organized, refreshingly concise, and . . . highly readable.”—Journal of Asian Studies

“In this elegantly written and meticulously researched study, Tsin uses a social history of early 20th-century Canton to explore the meaning and mechanisms of the political culture of modernity. One of the book’s great strengths is Tsin’s success in bringing social-historical and theoretical analyses together, using one to illuminate the other.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Michael T. W. Tsin is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University.