Never Forget National Humiliation - Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations

Informationen zum Autor Zheng Wang is an associate professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University and a global fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Klappentext How did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regain the support of Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s? And why has China become more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy?Zheng Wang offers an explanation for these trends as he follows and analyzes the CCP's ideological reeducation of the public, which relentlessly portrays China as the victim of "one hundred years of humiliation" and foreign imperialist bullying in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Wang uses historical memory to decode China's political transition, popular sentiment, and international behavior in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era. He also explores the role that historical memory has played in China's rise, its manipulation by political elites, its resonance in the popular imagination, and its ability to constrain and shape China's foreign relations with major powers. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Tank Man to China's New Patriots1. Historical Memory! Identity! and Politics2. Chosen Glory! Chosen Trauma3. From All-Under-Heaven to a Nation-State: Humiliation and Nation-Building4. From Victor to Victim: The Patriotic Education Campaign5. From Vanguard to Patriot: Reconstructing the Chinese Communist Party6. From Earthquake to Olympics: New Trauma! New Glory7. Memory! Crises! and Foreign Relations8. Memory! Textbooks! and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation9. Memory! Nationalism! and China's RiseNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Wang, Zheng Wang, Wang Zheng
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2012
• EAN: 9780231148900
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14890-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Contemporary Asia in the World; Contemporary Asia in the World
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Asian History