Lost Modernities (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures) - China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History

Alexander Woodside

Harvard University Press

2009

160 páginas

5h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780674022171

In Lost Modernities, Alexander Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations. This book removes modernity from a standard Eurocentric understanding and offers a unique new perspective on the transnational nature of Asian history.