Relevant literature

The following are examples of general literature that may be relevant:

Perry Link: An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Chen Lai: Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View. Transl. Edmund Ryden. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Revised edition. London: Verso, 2006 [1983]

Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds.): The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 [1983].

They are all available in Kindle format, except Chen Lai's book, which is expensive. I have asked the library to buy it.