{"product_id":"failure-nationalism-and-literature-9780804751766","title":"Failure Nationalism and Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success from failure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tsu's findings are compelling. She argues that in the wake of repeated military humiliations and the Western discourse on Chinese racial deficiency or inferiority, the formation of modern Chinese national identity was fueled by a self-perception as humiliated and deficient in a way the typically assumed patriotic pride and desire for sovereignty could never have done.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNations and Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an important book. . . offering suggestive new insights through a genre-bending analysis that owes much to intellectual history and literary analysis but is beholden to neither. . . . Using foundational texts of Chinese modernity along with some texts scarcely noticed before, Tsu has defamiliarized China.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAcademia Sinica\u003c\/i\u003e, Taiwan\u003cbr\u003e\"...a bold and useful book.\" -- \u003ci\u003eEtudes Chinoises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFailure, Nationalism, and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e achieves two important features of excellent scholarship—it helps makes sense of the past in new and challenging ways and in so doing provides numerous new points of departure for future scholarly work. Moreover, it stands as an excellent example of the unique contribution first-rate literary analysis can make to enhancing our understanding of the complexity of China's path through the twentieth century. This is a seriously good read.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe China Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tsu's book shows that China's national identity is premised upon a narrative of victimhood, and that this victimhood has become a rationale permitting all kinds of retaliatory action—avenging the injustices of the past becomes a nationalist project encased in a conception of a national identity of group humiliation. Tsu Jing's thesis about the widespread belief that 'the victim has a moral right to seek revenge' provides a rather unsettling contrast to the repeated government protestations about China's desires for a 'peaceful rise'.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Contemporary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Illustrations\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\txxx  Acknowledgments\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\txxx\t\t\t  Chapter 1: Failure and National Identity\t\t\t\t\t\t1\t  Chapter 2: The Yellow Race\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t000  Chapter 3: The Menace of Race\t\t\t\t\t\t\t000  Chapter 4: Loving the Nation, Preserving the Race\t\t\t\t\t000  Chapter 5: The Quest for Beauty and Notions of Femininity\t\t\t\t000  Chapter 6: Community of Expiation: Confessions, Masculinity, and Masochism\t000  Chapter 7: Kumen, Cultural Suffering\t\t\t\t\t\t000  Conclusion: The Emergence of Culture in Failure\t\t\t\t000  Notes\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t000\t  Bibliography\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t000  Character List\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t000  Index\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405562061143,"sku":"9780804751766","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751766.jpg?v=1730492841","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/failure-nationalism-and-literature-9780804751766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}