Social Construction of National Reality - Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Kwan, Diana S. Kwan, Kwan Diana S., Fu-Lai Yu, Fu-Lai Kwan Yu, Fu-Lai Tony Yu, Fu-Lai Tony Kwan Yu, Yu Fu-Lai Tony
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781498592420
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9242-0
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government