In The Allure of the Nation, Tze-ki Hon offers an account of early twentieth-century China where the nation was understood as a cluster of spatial-temporal relations that link individuals to a native place, a social network, and a territorial state.

Tze-ki Hon, Ph.D. (1992), University of Chicago, is Professor of History at State University of New York-Geneseo. He has published monographs and articles on pre-modern and modern China, including The Yijing and Chinese Politics (SUNY Press, 2005) and Revolution as Restoration (Brill, 2013).