Chinese Nationalism in Perspective

by Wei, C. X. George

• ISBN13: 9780313315114
• ISBN10: 0313315116
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-30
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

Wei and Liu argue that Chinese nationalism is a multifaceted concept. At different historical moments and under certain circumstances, it had different meanings and interacted with other competing motives and interests. The authors of this timely volume, all of whom are of Chinese origin and bi-national education, have produced a balanced and non-culture-bound work of scholarship. It contains diverse, provocative, and in-depth analysis of both historical and recent case studies that can shed light on the contemporary incarnation of Chinese nationalism. This interdisciplinary anthology looks at variants of Chinese nationalism upheld and contended by social groups, classes, and power-holders from the past to the present. The authors argue that nationalism can be supported by both patriotic and group- or party-oriented interest calculations. Forms of Chinese nationalism can result from situational as well as ideological conditions.

Author Biography

Weikun Cheng is an Asian Historian and Assistant Professor at California State University, Chico James Z. Gao is Assistant Professor of History at University of Maryland at College Park Toming Jun Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles Xiaoyuan Liu is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University Zhijia Shen is Assistant Professor and head of the East Asian Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder Peter Chen-Main Wang is Professor of history at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan C.X. George Wei is Assistant Professor of History at Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania and "Guest Professor" of the Institute of History Research of the Shanghai Academy of Social Science Guoqi Xu is Wen Chao Chen Assistant Professor of History, Kalamazoo College Xiaoqun Xu is Associate Professor of History at Francis Marion University

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Foreword	ix
William C. Kirby
Introduction	1	(14)
PART ONE: NATIONALISM AND SOCIETY
Creating a New Nation, Creating New Women: Women's Journalism and the Building of Nationalist Womanhood during the 1911 Revolution	15	(18)
Weikun Cheng
A Patriotic Christian Leader in Changing China---Yu Rizhang in the Turbulent 1920s	33	(20)
Peter Chen-main Wang
National Salvation and Cultural Reconstruction: Shanghai Professors' Responses to the National Crisis in the 1930s	53	(22)
Xiaoqun Xu
Nationalism in the Context of Survival: The Sino-Japanese War Fought in a Local Arena, Zouping, 1937--1945	75	(26)
Zhijia Shen
PART TWO: NATIONALISM, THE STATE, AND IDEOLOGY
Nationalism, Internationalism, and National Identity: China from 1895 to 1919	101	(20)
Guoqi Xu
Communism, Nationalism, Ethnicism, and China's ``National Question,'' 1921--1945	121	(28)
Xiaoyuan Liu
Economic Nationalism versus Capitalist Economic Liberalism: The Negotiation of the Sino-American Commercial Treaty	149	(30)
C.X. Geroge Wei
War Culture, Nationalism, and Political Campaigns, 1950--1953	179	(26)
James Z. Gao
Restless Chinese Nationalist Currents in the 1980s and the 1990s: A Comparative Reading of River Elegy and China Can Say No	205	(28)
Toming Jun Liu
Index	233	(12)
About the Contributors	245