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.

Yongnian Zheng (Author)

9780521645904, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 April 1999

208 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.345 kg

'This is an essential text to consider for anyone studying Chinese nationalism or China and the world.' Journal of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

This book explores the revival of Chinese nationalism in the 1990s, and analyses the ways in which the West deals with this phenomenon. Yongnian Zheng discusses 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. He argues that China's new nationalism has been a reaction to changes in the country's international circumstances and can be regarded as a 'voice' over the existing unjustified international order. Zheng shows that the present Chinese leadership is pursuing strategies not to isolate China, but to integrate it into the international community. Based on the author's extensive research in China, the book provides a set of provocative arguments against prevailing Western attitudes to and perceptions of China's nationalism.

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?

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Cultural studies [JFC]