Exploring nationalisms of China
Subtitle: themes and conflicts
By: edited by C.X. George Wei and Xiaoyuan Liu ; foreword by William C. Kirby.
Contributors: Wei, C. X. George.; Liu, Xiaoyuan.
Series: Contributions to the study of world history -- 102.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Nationalism -- China.
Description: Chinese scholars of the humanities and social sciences, some working in China and some in the west, explore the question of Chinese nationalism. Several show that it tends to be reactive to external provocations and threats, but others point out that it may also provoke anti-hegemonic nationalism from ethnopolitical groups within or on the verge of the People's Republic. They consider thematic issues in historical and current debates, the relationship between popular and state-fostered nationalism, and nation and ethnicity along China's inland and maritime frontiers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern Chinese nationalism: the formative stage / Hong-yuan Chu and Peter Zarrow; title: Intellectual currents behind contemporary Chinese nationalism / Jilin Xu; title: Nationalism in Chinese popular culture: a case study of The opium war / Zhiwei Xiao; title: U.S. Marines in Qingdao: history, public memory, and Chinese nationalism / Zhiguo Yang; title: China learning to stand up: nationalism in the formative years of the People's Republic of China / Xiaodong Wang; title: Problems of nationalism in contemporary China: student-government conflicts during nationalistic protests / Dingxin Zhao; title: A cultural search for national identity: the evolution of the nationalism of Taiwan / C.X. George Wei; title: The "Tibetan question": nation and religion / Lixiong Wang; title: Ethnonyms and nationalism in Xinjiang / Jianmin Wang; title: Theories of ethnic identity and the making of Yi identity in China / Jiao Pan.