Chinese Nationalism in Perspective: Historical and Recent Cases

by C. X. George Wei (Editor), Xiaoyuan Liu (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313315114
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/2001
Series:	Contributions to the Study of World History , #91
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

C. X. GEORGE WEI is Assistant Professor of History at Susquehanna University. He has been Guest Professor of the Research Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in the P.R.C. He is author of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-1949 (Greenwood, 1997) and more than a dozen articles in English and Chinese.

XIAOYUAN LIU is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and State University of New York at Potsdam. His publications include A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945 (1996), as well as numerous articles in English and Chinese in the fields of East Asian international relations and China's foreign and frontier affairs.

Table of Contents

Preface by William C. Kirby
Introduction
Nationalism and Society
Creating a New Nation, Creating New Women: Women's Jourbanalism 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 Ideology
Nationalism, 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

Editorial Reviews

Wei (history, Susquehanna U.) and Liu (history, Iowa State U.) bring together nine essays which explore the formation of nationalism in China over the past century through lenses focusing on both politically powerful elites and peripheral social forces. Specific topics addressed include the relationship of China to Japanese dominance in Pacific Asia, the response of Shanghai intellectuals to the Japanese, the negotiation of the Sino-American Commercial Treaty in the 1940s, and women's journalism and the building of nationalist womanhood in the 1911 revolution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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