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Zusatztext "Tsu's book shows that China's national identity is premised upon a narrative of victimhood! and that this victimhood has become a rationale permitting all kinds of retaliatory action-avenging the injustices of the past becomes a nationalist project encased in a conception of a national identity of group humiliation. Tsu Jing's thesis about the widespread belief that 'the victim has a moral right to seek revenge' provides a rather unsettling contrast to the repeated government protestations about China's desires for a 'peaceful rise'." Informationen zum Autor Jing Tsu is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Klappentext "Failure, Nationalism, and Literature achieves two important features of excellent scholarship--it helps makes sense of the past in new and challenging ways and in so doing provides numerous new points of departure for future scholarly work. Moreover, it stands as an excellent example of the unique contribution first-rate literary analysis can make to enhancing our understanding of the complexity of China's path through the twentieth century. This is a seriously good read."--The China Journal Zusammenfassung Against prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success from failure.
