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Wei and Liu argue that Chinese nationalism is a multifaceted concept. At different historical moments and under certain circumstances, it had different meanings and interacted with other competing motives and interests. The authors of this timely volume, all of whom are of Chinese origin and bi-national education, have produced a balanced and non-culture-bound work of scholarship. It contains diverse, provocative, and in-depth analysis of both historical and recent case studies that can shed light on the contemporary incarnation of Chinese nationalism.
This interdisciplinary anthology looks at variants of Chinese nationalism upheld and contended by social groups, classes, and power-holders from the past to the present. The authors argue that nationalism can be supported by both patriotic and group- or party-oriented interest calculations. Forms of Chinese nationalism can result from situational as well as ideological conditions.
List of contents
Preface by William C. Kirby
Introduction
Nationalism and SocietyCreating a New Nation, Creating New Women: Women's Journalism and The Building of Nationalist Womanhood during the 1911 Revolution by Weikun Cheng
A Patriotic Christian Leader in Changing China--Yu Rizhang in the Turbulent 1920s by Peter Chen-main Wang
National Salvation and Cultural Reconstruction: Shanghai Professors' Responses to the National Crisis in the 1930s by Xiaoqun Xu
Nationalism in the Context of Survival: The Sino-Japanese War Fought in a Local Arena, Zouping, 1937-1945 by Zhijian Shen
Nationalism, the State, and IdeologyNationalism, Internationalism, and National Identity: China from 1895 to 1919 by Guoqi Xu
Communism, Nationalism, Ethnicism, and China's "National Question," 1921-1945 by Xiaoyuan Liu
Economic Nationalism versus Capitalist Economic Liberalism: The Negotiation of the Sino-American Commercial Treaty by C. X. George Wei
War Culture, Nationalism, and Political Campaigns, 1950-1953 by James Z. Gao
Restless Chinese Nationalist Currents in the 1980s and 1990s: A Comparative Reading of River Elegy and China Can Say No by Toming Jun Liu
Index
About the author
C. X. GEORGE WEI teaches in the Department of History at Susquehanna University. Dr. Wei has published in Chinese on the subjects of U.S.-China relations, Chinese history, and American economic history.Xiaoyuan Liu is professor of history at Iowa State University, US and has a Zijiang Professorship at East China Normal University. He has worked on the issue of modern China's territories and ethnic frontiers for more than a decade. He is the author of Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911 - 1950 (Stanford UP, 2006), and Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism (Stanford UP, 2004). He is a leading scholar in the field of East Asian international history and a pioneer historian who provides fresh paradigms and opens new grounds.
