Exploring Nationalisms of China

China is a site for the evolution, not only of Chinese nationalism, but the nationalism of various non-Han ethnic groups. During the 20th century, these ethnic groups constructed and expressed their own identities and nationalism through interaction with one another and with outside influences. This interdisciplinary anthology contains nine original works that pluralize our understanding of nationalism in China by illustrating the various intellectual strains of China's nationalist discourse, the dichotomy between the political authorities' and grass roots' experiences, and the nationalizing efforts by various ethnic and political groups along China's inland and maritime frontiers.

First, contributors explore the controversy surrounding the contested issue of China's national and international identity from pre-modern times to the present. Next, the authors examine China's nationalist encounters with foreign influences such as U.S. Marines in Shandong, Soviet experts in Manchuria, and recent friction between the United States and the PRC. Finally, essays expand beyond the ethnographic regions of the Han-Chinese and the political domain of the PRC to discuss the odyssey of Taiwan's nationalism in both a political and a cultural sense. Many selections are based on newly declassified archival materials.

Foreword by William C. Kirby
Preface
Discourses of Chinese Nationalism
Modern Chinese Nationalism: The Formative Stage by Hong-yuan Chu and Peter Zarrow
Intellectual Currents behind Contemporary Chinese Nationalism by Jilin Xu
Nationalism in Chinese Popular Culture: A Case Study of The Opium War by Zhiwei Xiao
Grassroots, State Nationalism, and Foreign Encounters
U.S. Marines in Qingdao: History, Public Memory, and Chinese Nationalism by Zhiguo Yang
China Learning to Stand up: Nationalism in the Formative Years of the People's Republic of China by Xiaodong Wang
Problems of Nationalism in Current China: Student-Government Conflicts during Nationalistic Protests by Dingxin Zhao
Frontier Identities and Nationalisms
A Cultural Search for National Identity: The Evolution of the Nationalism of Taiwan by C. X. George Wei
The "Tibetan Question": Nation and Religion by Lixiong Wang
Ethnonyms and Nationalism in Xinjiang by Jianmin Wang
Theories of Ethinic Identity and the Making of Yi Nationality in China by Jiao Pan