Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China: Modernization, Identity, and International Relations

by Yongnian Zheng

• ISBN13: 9780521645904
• ISBN10: 0521645905
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Yongnian Zheng is a Research Fellow in the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiv
Abbreviations of Cited Chinese Newspapers and Journals	xvi
Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China	1	(20)
Realism, Liberalism, and Chinese Nationalism	4	(5)
A Chinese Understanding of China's New Nationalism	9	(1)
National Identity and International Behavior	10	(4)
Chinese Problems and Nationalism	14	(5)
Conclusion	19	(2)
Nationalism and Statism: Chinese Perceptions of the Crisis of State Power	21	(27)
Nationalism and Statism in Modern China	22	(7)
Decentralization and Development	29	(6)
The Rise of Ethnic Nationalism	35	(3)
The Perceptions of the Crisis of State Power and the Rise of Statism	38	(6)
Conclusion	44	(4)
Identity Crisis, the ``New Left'' and Anti-Westernization Search for New National Identities: Modernization vs ``Westernization''	48	(19)
The Rise of the New Left	52	(1)
Against Institutional Fetishism	53	(3)
``Localizing'' Chinese Discourse of Economic Reforms	56	(1)
``Catch-up'' vs ``Comparative Advantage''	57	(5)
New Collectivism or Neo-Maoism	62	(2)
Political and Economic Democracy	64	(1)
Conclusion	65	(2)
The Clash of Civilizations? Confucian vs Christian Civilizations	67	(20)
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Modern China	67	(3)
Confucian Nationalism?	70	(6)
The Clash of Civilizations?	76	(4)
The Confucian Civilization and World Peace	80	(2)
A Transformation of Nationalism?	82	(3)
Conclusion	85	(2)
The Official Discourse of Nationalism: Patriotism and the Constraints of Nationalism	87	(24)
Patriotism as Official Nationalism	89	(13)
Civilian-Military Coalition and Official Campaign	102	(7)
Conclusion	109	(2)
New Identity, National Interest, and International Behavior	111	(28)
``Comprehensive National Power''	114	(8)
National Interest in the Post-Cold War Era	122	(4)
New Identity and Foreign Behavior: Three Cases	126	(11)
Conclusion	137	(2)
Identity Transition and Chinese Power: To What End China's New Nationalism?	139	(21)
``Voice'': China's Strategic Choice in the Post-Cold War Era	139	(3)
Realists: Perception and National Choice	142	(5)
Liberalism, Globalism, and Nationalism	147	(6)
``Voice'', Discontent, and Cooperation	153	(7)
Notes	160	(4)
Bibliography	164	(21)
Index	185