China's Quest For National Identity 0801480647, 9780801480645
How to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chinese citizens as i
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Table of contents :
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. In Search of a Theory of National Identity
2. National Identity in Premodern China: Formation and Role Enactment
3. Chinese National Identity and the Strong State: The Late Qing-Republican Crisis
4. Rites or Beliefs? The Construction of a Unified Culture in Late Imperial China
5. Change and Continuity in Chinese Cultural Identity: The Filial Ideal and the Transformation of an Ethic
6. China's Intellectuals in the Deng Era: Loss of Identity with the State
7. China Coast Identities: Regional, National, and Global
8. China as a Third World State: Foreign Policy and Official National Identity
9. China's Multiple Identities in East Asia: China as a Regional Force
10. Whither China's Quest for National Identity?
Index
Books Written under the Auspices of the Center of International Studies Princeton University 1952-1991
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. In Search of a Theory of National Identity
2. National Identity in Premodern China: Formation and Role Enactment
3. Chinese National Identity and the Strong State: The Late Qing-Republican Crisis
4. Rites or Beliefs? The Construction of a Unified Culture in Late Imperial China
5. Change and Continuity in Chinese Cultural Identity: The Filial Ideal and the Transformation of an Ethic
6. China's Intellectuals in the Deng Era: Loss of Identity with the State
7. China Coast Identities: Regional, National, and Global
8. China as a Third World State: Foreign Policy and Official National Identity
9. China's Multiple Identities in East Asia: China as a Regional Force
10. Whither China's Quest for National Identity?
Index
Books Written under the Auspices of the Center of International Studies Princeton University 1952-1991
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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- Lowell Dittmer
