TY - BOOK AU - Wang, Hui. AU - Huters, Theodore. TI - The politics of imagining Asia SN - 9780674055193 (alk. paper) U1 - 950.072 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Comparative civilization KW - Historiography KW - Political aspects KW - East Asia KW - Relations KW - Western countries KW - Civilization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index; The politics of imagining Asia -- How to explain "China" and its "mo dernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought -- Local forms , vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "n ational forms" debate -- The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orienta lism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity -- Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order -- Weber and the questio n of Chinese modernity ER -