Download or read book Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China written by Michael T. W. Tsin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work studies the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution. It argues that modernist politics as practiced by the Nationalists and Communists represented a specific political rationality embedded in the context of a novel conception of the social realm.