China's Quest For National Identity
β Scribed by Lowell Dittmer
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 323
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
How to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chinese citizens as it has been among foreign observers. This volume brings together ten new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of Chinese national identity in past and contemporary settings.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. In Search of a Theory of National Identity
2. National Identity in Premodern China: Formation and Role Enactment
3. Chinese National Identity and the Strong State: The Late Qing-Republican Crisis
4. Rites or Beliefs? The Construction of a Unified Culture in Late Imperial China
5. Change and Continuity in Chinese Cultural Identity: The Filial Ideal and the Transformation of an Ethic
6. China's Intellectuals in the Deng Era: Loss of Identity with the State
7. China Coast Identities: Regional, National, and Global
8. China as a Third World State: Foreign Policy and Official National Identity
9. China's Multiple Identities in East Asia: China as a Regional Force
10. Whither China's Quest for National Identity?
Index
Books Written under the Auspices of the Center of International Studies Princeton University 1952-1991
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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