Fu-Lai Tony Yu, Diana S. Kwan

Social Construction of National Reality

Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong

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Produktbeschreibung

Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan examine the Taiwan Strait Crisis and upheavals in Tibet and Hong Kong through the lens of Peter Berger's theory of social construction of reality in order to explain the origins of national identity and the process of nation building.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781498592420
• ISBN-10: 1498592422
• Artikelnr.: 59919696

Autorenporträt

Fu-Lai Tony Yu is professor of economics at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Diana S. Kwan is project coordinator in the Office of Medical Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Social Construction of National Reality: Towards a Theory of
National Consciousness and Identity
Chapter 3: Historical Origins of China's National Identity: Grand
Unification Doctrine, Great Han Mentality, Patriotism and Nationalism
Chapter 4: The Taiwan Strait Conflict: Taiwanese Consciousness versus
Chinese Consciousness
Chapter 5: Tension in Tibet: Tibetan Buddhism against Chinese Cultural
Assimilation
Chapter 6: Explaining the Rise of Hong Kong Consciousness: Localization
against Mainlandization
Chapter 7: A Comparative Analysis on the Taiwan Strait Conflict, Tibet's
Tension and Hong Kong's Localization Movement