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China's Quest for National Identity / Lowell Dittmer, Samuel S. Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Chinese.
- Nationalism--China.
- Nationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 305 p.) 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. In Search of a Theory of National Identity / Dittmer, Lowell / Kim, Samuel S.
- 2. National Identity in Premodern China: Formation and Role Enactment / Ng-Quinn, Michael
- 3. Chinese National Identity and the Strong State: The Late Qing-Republican Crisis / Hunt, Michael H.
- 4. Rites or Beliefs? The Construction of a Unified Culture in Late Imperial China / Watson, James L.
- 5. Change and Continuity in Chinese Cultural Identity: The Filial Ideal and the Transformation of an Ethic / Wilson, Richard W.
- 6. China's Intellectuals in the Deng Era: Loss of Identity with the State / Goldman, Merle / Link, Perry / Wei, Su
- 7. China Coast Identities: Regional, National, and Global / White, Lynn / Cheng, Li
- 8. China as a Third World State: Foreign Policy and Official National Identity / Ness, Peter Van
- 9. China's Multiple Identities in East Asia: China as a Regional Force / Scalapino, Robert A.
- 10. Whither China's Quest for National Identity? / Kim, Samuel S. / Dittmer, Lowell
- Index
- Books Written under the Auspices of the Center of International Studies Princeton University 1952-1991
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- Notes:
- The words, Chung-kuo, in chinese characters on t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501723773
- 1501723774
- OCLC:
- 1076783515
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