Exploring nationalisms of China : themes and conflicts

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    • Wei, C. X. George
    • Liu, Xiaoyuan

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Exploring nationalisms of China : themes and conflicts

edited by C.X. George Wei and Xiaoyuan Liu ; foreword by William C. Kirby

(Contributions to the study of world history, 102)

Greenwood Press, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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China is a site for the evolution, not only of Chinese nationalism, but the nationalism of various non-Han ethnic groups. During the 20th century, these ethnic groups constructed and expressed their own identities and nationalism through interaction with one another and with outside influences. This interdisciplinary anthology contains nine original works that pluralize our understanding of nationalism in China by illustrating the various intellectual strains of China's nationalist discourse, the dichotomy between the political authorities' and grass roots' experiences, and the nationalizing efforts by various ethnic and political groups along China's inland and maritime frontiers. First, contributors explore the controversy surrounding the contested issue of China's national and international identity from pre-modern times to the present. Next, the authors examine China's nationalist encounters with foreign influences such as U.S. Marines in Shandong, Soviet experts in Manchuria, and recent friction between the United States and the PRC. Finally, essays expand beyond the ethnographic regions of the Han-Chinese and the political domain of the PRC to discuss the odyssey of Taiwan's nationalism in both a political and a cultural sense. Many selections are based on newly declassified archival materials.

Table of Contents

Foreword by William C. Kirby Preface Discourses of Chinese Nationalism Modern Chinese Nationalism: The Formative Stage by Hong-yuan Chu and Peter Zarrow Intellectual Currents behind Contemporary Chinese Nationalism by Jilin Xu Nationalism in Chinese Popular Culture: A Case Study of The Opium War by Zhiwei Xiao Grassroots, State Nationalism, and Foreign Encounters U.S. Marines in Qingdao: History, Public Memory, and Chinese Nationalism by Zhiguo Yang China Learning to Stand up: Nationalism in the Formative Years of the People's Republic of China by Xiaodong Wang Problems of Nationalism in Current China: Student-Government Conflicts during Nationalistic Protests by Dingxin Zhao Frontier Identities and Nationalisms A Cultural Search for National Identity: The Evolution of the Nationalism of Taiwan by C. X. George Wei The "Tibetan Question": Nation and Religion by Lixiong Wang Ethnonyms and Nationalism in Xinjiang by Jianmin Wang Theories of Ethinic Identity and the Making of Yi Nationality in China by Jiao Pan

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  • NCID
    BA62411416
  • ISBN
    • 0313315124
  • LCCN
    2002067768
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Westport, Conn.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 235 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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