The Allure of the Nation: The Cultural and Historical Debates in Late Qing and Republican China: 11 (Ideas, History, and Modern China, 11) - Hardcover

"The Allure of the Nation is testimony to Hon's decades-long research on the relationship between nation and history, a relationship about which every historian of modern China must be aware. [...] In total, the seven chapters of this book offer an alternative reading of China's past where the dichotomies of revolution vs. reform, radicalism vs. conservatism, and East vs. West play a far more minor role than usually assumed."
Marc A. Matten, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Frontiers of Literary Studies, Vol. 10.2 (August 2016)

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.