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Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China - The search for national identity under reform (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China - The search for national identity under reform (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
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In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese Nationalism' the
distinction between nation and state is rarely made,
consequentially nationalism usually appears as loyalty to the state
rather than identification with the nation. Yet, since 1989, both
the official configuration of the nation and the state's
monopolized right to name the nation have come under rigorous
challenge. This book relocates the discussion of nationalism in a
more contemporary framework, which explores the disjunction between
the people and the state and the relationship of each to the
nation.
Since the late nineteen eighties the Chinese Party-state has
increasingly embraced a more Westernized way of life enabling the
country to propel itself into a position of economic and political
international importance. This revolutionary upheaval has led
cultural nationalists to pose such controversial questions as, what
constitutes Chineseness? And, is a Party-state that portrays itself
as the sole representative of the nation a legitimate one? This
revealing work not only suggests that the CCP is beginning to
compromise, therefore highlighting that the state is aware that it
is loosing its monopoly, but also that the cultural nationalists
further seek to reform the Party-state in accordance with the
nation's will, beliefs, values and concept of its own identity.
With its challenging exploration one of the most neglected aspects
of identity in China, this book should appeal to Asianists, China
watchers and all of those with an interest in cultural and
sociological phenomena in East Asia.
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