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Collaborative Nationalism - The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier (Hardcover)
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Collaborative Nationalism - The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier (Hardcover)
Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
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Cosmopolitanism and friendship have become key themes for
understanding ethnicity and nationalism. In this deeply original
study of the Mongols, leading scholar Uradyn E. Bulag draws on
these themes to develop a new concept he terms "collaborative
nationalism." He uses this concept to explore the paradoxical
dilemma of minorities in China as they fight not against being
excluded but against being embraced too tightly in the bonds of
"friendship." Going beyond traditional binary relationships, he
offers a unique triangular perspective that illuminates the
complexity of regional interaction. Thus, Collaborative Nationalism
traces the regional and global significance of the Mongols in the
fierce competition among China, Japan, Mongolia, and Russia to
appropriate the Mongol heritage to buttress their own national
identities. The book considers a rich array of case studies that
range from Chinggis Khan to reincarnate lamas, from cadres to
minority revolutionary history, and from building the Mongolian
working class to interethnic adoption. So-called friendship and
collaboration permeate all of these arenas, but Bulag digs below
the surface to focus on the animosity and conflicts they both
generate and mask. Weighing the options the Mongols face, he argues
that the ethnopolitical is not so much about identity as it is
about the capacity of an ethnic group to decide and organize its
own vision of itself, both within its community and in relation to
other groups. Nationalism, he contends, is collaborative at the
same time that it is predicated on the pursuit of sovereignty.
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