The teleology of the modern nation-state: Japan and China

Introduction : the teleology of the nation-state

1. emergence of aesthetic Japan / Eiko Ikegami

2. North(west)ern peoples and the recurrent origins of the "Chinese" state / Victor Mair

3. State-making in global context : Japan in a world of nation-states / Mark Ravina

4. When did China become China? : thoughts on the twentieth century / William C. Kirby

5. Civilization and enlightenment : markers of identity in nineteenth-century Japan / David L. Howell

6. Nationality and difference in China : the post-imperial dilemma / Pamela Kyle Crossley

7. Cultivating non-national understandings in local history / Luke S. Roberts

8. Where do incorrect political ideas come from? : writing the history of the Qing Empire and the Chinese nation / Peter C. Perdue.