Chinese Nationalism in Perspective - (Contributions to the Study of World History) by C X George Wei & Xiaoyuan Liu (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

C. X. GEORGE WEI is Assistant Professor of History at Susquehanna University. He has been Guest Professor of the Research Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in the P.R.C. He is author of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-1949 (Greenwood, 1997) and more than a dozen articles in English and Chinese.

XIAOYUAN LIU is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and State University of New York at Potsdam. His publications include A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945 (1996), as well as numerous articles in English and Chinese in the fields of East Asian international relations and China's foreign and frontier affairs.