""Staging the World" fundamentally challenges the conventional assumptions of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century intellectual history and proposes a creative, alternative imagining of the historiography of modern China. This is a rare work of intellectual ambition and righteous moral sense."--Lionel M. Jensen, author of "Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization"

Preface & Acknowledgments
Part I
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1. Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on Modern Chinese Nationalism
2. Staging the World
Part II
3. Deterritorializing Politics: The Pacific and Hawaii as Chinese National Space
4. Recognizing Colonialism: The Philippines and Revolution
5. Promoting the Ethnos: The Boer War and Discourses of the People
Part III
6. Performing on the World Stage in Asia
7. Re-creating China’s World
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index