Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China

by Liew,Leong H.; Liew,Leong H.

• ISBN13: 9780415307505
• ISBN10: 0415307503
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-16
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This book examines the changing role of nationalism in China in the light of the immense political and economic changes there during the 1990s. It analyzes recent debates between the nationalists (New Left) and liberals in China and examines the roles played by state-sponsored and populist nationalism in China's foreign relations with the West in general and the USA in particular. The issues of Taiwanese nationalism and Tibet and Xinjiang separatism are discussed, with a focus on the questions of the impact of globalization on national integration or fragmentation and the relationship between democracy and national integration--should democracy precede national integration or could democracy be realized only after national integration, or are democracy and national integration mutually exclusive objectives? The book also examines the roles played by the People's Liberation Army and the fiscal system in China promoting Chinese nationalism and national integration.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Preface	ix
PART I Introduction	1	(20)
The nexus between nationalism, democracy and national integration	3	(18)
Leong H. Liew
Doug Smith
PART II Democracy and Chinese nationalism	21	(42)
Barking up the wrong tree: the liberal-nationalist debate on democracy and identity	23	(21)
Yingjie Guo
The rise of neo-nationalism and the New Left: a postcolonial and postmodern perspective	44	(19)
Mobo Changfan Gao
PART III Chinese nationalism and Sino-US relations	63	(42)
Chinese nationalism and the Belgrade embassy bombing	65	(20)
Ben Hillman
Chinese nationalism and Sino-US relations: the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade	vi	(20)
Joseph Cheng
Kinglun Ngok
PART IV Taiwanese nationalism	105	(40)
Taiwan's evolving nationalism: ideology for independence	107	(15)
C.L. Chiou
The political formation of Taiwanese nationalism	122	(23)
Chia-Lung Lin
PART V Market, democracy and national integration	145	(74)
China's minorities and national integration	147	(23)
Colin Mackerras
China's national identity: a source of conflict between democracy and state nationalism	170	(26)
Baogang He
Reaching out to Taiwan, keeping in Xinjiang: the impact of marketization and globalization on national integration	196	(23)
Leong H. Liew
PART VI Institutions promoting national integration	219	(42)
For national unity: the political logic of fiscal transfer in China	221	(26)
Shaoguang Wang
Nationalism, the Chinese defence culture and the People's Liberation Army	247	(14)
Ji You
Index	261