Download or read book Imagining a Postnational World written by Marc Andre Matten and published by Brill's Series on Modern East. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the historical significance of rivaling concepts of world order in 20th century East Asia. It discusses in detail the relationship of territoriality and political rule, discourses of amity and enmity, and finally the role of hegemoniality in the process of imaging a possible postnational world in twenty-first century East Asia and beyond.