Exploring Nationalisms of China (eBook, PDF)

Themes and Conflicts
Redaktion: Wei, C. X. George; Liu, Xiaoyuan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313013379
• Artikelnr.: 37825441

Autorenporträt

C. X. GEORGE WEI is Associate Professor of History at Susquehanna University and guest professor of the Institute of History Research of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He is co-editor of Chinese Nationalism in Perspective: Historical and Recent Cases (2001), and author of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-1949 (1997). XIAOYUAN LIU is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is the author of A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945.

Inhaltsangabe

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