      thumb|right|flag of the people's republic of china, representing chinese nationalists who support the prc. chinese nationalism is the nationalism asserts that the chinese people are a nation and promotes the cultural and national unity of the chinese. ==ideological basis==  chinese nationalism has drawn from extremely diverse ideological sources including traditional chinese thinking, american progressivism, marxism, and russian ethnological thought. the ideology also presents itself in many different and often conflicting manifestations, including ultra-imperialism. these manifestations have included the three principles of the people, the communist party of china, the anti-government views of students in the tiananmen protests of 1989, fascist blueshirts, and japanese collaborationism under wang jingwei. although chinese nationalists have agreed on the desirability of a centralized chinese state, almost every other question has been the subject of intense and sometimes bitter debate. among the questions on which chinese nationalists have disagreed is what policies would lead to a strong china, what is the structure of the state and its goal, what the relationship should be between china and foreign powers, and what should be the relationships between the majority han chinese, minority groups, and overseas chinese. the vast variation in how chinese nationalism has been expressed has been noted by commentators lucian pye who argues that this reveals a 
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