Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China - Modernization, Identity, and International Relations

Explores the revival of Chinese nationalism and analyses the ways in which the West deals with this phenomenon.

List of contents

1. Discovering Chinese nationalism in China; 2. Nationalism and Statism: decentralization vs centralization; 3. Identity crisis, the New Left and anti-West sentiment; 4. The clash of civilizations? Confucian vs Christian civilizations; 5. 'Comprehensive national power': China's perception of National interest; 6. The politics of official discourse against 'anti-China' theories; 7. Identity transition and Chinese power: whither China's new nationalism?

Summary

This book explores the complicated nature of China's new nationalism and presents the reader with a very different picture to that portrayed in Western readings of Chinese nationalism. Yongnian Zheng shows that the present Chinese leadership is pursuing strategies not to isolate China, but to integrate it into the international community.

Product details

• Authors: Yung-Nien Cheng, Yongnian Zheng, Yong-Nian Zheng, Zheng Yongnian
• Assisted by: John Ravenhill (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.1999
• EAN: 9780521645904
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64590-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 345 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies; Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International Relations, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state