Nationalism in asia : a history since 1945 / Jeff Kingston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingston, Jeff, author.

Series:

New York Academy of Sciences Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Asia--History.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

Summary:

Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Explores the ways in which nationalism is expressed, embraced, challenged, and resisted in contemporary China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach Provides an important trans-national and trans-regional analysis by looking at five countries that span Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia Features comparative analysis of identity politics, democracy, economic policy, nation branding, sports, shared trauma, memory and culture wars, territorial disputes, national security and minorities Offers an accessible, thematic narrative written for non-specialists, including a detailed and up-to-date bibliography Gives readers an in-depth understanding of the ramifications of nationalism in these countries for the future of Asia

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps ; Introduction; Part I National Identity; Chapter 1 The Idea of Nation; Forgetting; Legacies; Chapter 2 Contemporary Culture Wars and National Identity; Japan; China; Incredible India?; Indonesia; South Korea; Chapter 3 Nation Branding Confronts Troubling Realities; Pollution; Payola; Press; Poverty; Patriarchy; Part II Political Economy and Spectacle; Chapter 4 Economic Nationalism; Japan; South Korea; Indonesia; India; China; Crisis and Economic Nationalism; Repercussions of the Lehman Shock; Chapter 5 Democracy and Nationalism

Democracy and Asian ValuesWhich Asian Values?; Democratization; Odd State Out; Democratization and Nationalism; One-Party Rule; Chapter 6 Sports Nationalism; Cricket; World Baseball Classic; East Asian Olympics; Olympic Redemption and Nation Branding; World Cup 2002; Commonwealth Games 2010; Part III Shackles of the Past; Chapter 7 Chosen and Unchosen Traumas; China; India; Japan; South Korea; Indonesia; Chapter 8 Museums and Memorials; India; Indonesia; China; Japan; South Korea; Chapter 9 Textbook Nationalism and Memory Wars; Hindu Nationalism and Textbooks

Indonesia's Discordant ContinuitiesJapan's Textbook Battles; Textbooks and Reconciliation?; Memory Wars; Missed Opportunity?; Politicizing the Past, Imperiling the Future; Vanishing Comfort Women; Conclusion; Part IV Flashpoints and Fringes; Chapter 10 Nationalism and Territorial Disputes; East Asia; Russo-Japanese Dissensus; Sino-Japanese Brinksmanship: The Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute; Distractions and Agendas; Dokdo/Takeshima: Islands of Eternal Dispute; Kashmir; Othering the Muslim Menace; India's Tibet?; East Timor; Chapter 11 Nationalism and the Fringes; China's Fringes; Indian Muslims

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 21, 2016).

ISBN:

1-118-50819-X

0-470-67302-8

1-118-50817-3

OCLC:

946705699