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Birth of the Geopolitical Age
Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China
Shellen Xiao Wu

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Contents
Introduction: Why Empires Matter in the Age of the Nation-State
1 1852 and the Afterlife of Revolutions
2 The Experimental Grounds of New Imperialism
3 In Search of New Frontiers
4 Versailles and the Birth of the Geopolitical Age
5 Rural Development and Its Discontents
6 The Devil's Handwriting
7 Cold War New Empires