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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents a comprehensive survey of the formation and transformation of nationalism in 15 East and Southeast Asian countries.
Written by a team of international scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines, this volume offers new perspectives on studying Asian history, society, culture, and politics, and provides readers with a unique lens through which to better contextualise and understand the relationships between countries within East and Southeast Asia, and between Asia and the world. It highlights the latest developments in the field and contributes to our knowledge and understanding of nationalism and nation building. Comprehensive and clearly written, this book examines a diverse set of topics that include theoretical considerations on nationalism and internationalism; the formation of nationalism and national identity in the colonial and postcolonial eras; the relationships between traditional culture, religion, ethnicity, education, gender, techno
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'Professor Lu Zhouxiang has done an excellent job in bringing together a range of essays – both general and focused on particular states, regions, and themes – concerned with nationalism in both East and South-East Asia. This will be of value to the general reader by virtue of its breadth of coverage. It will also help historians and social scientists in the field to contextualise their own findings in light of similar work by other specialists.'
John Breuilly, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Nationalism is one of the most powerful and important factors to shape Asia, one of the most dynamic areas in the world, and understanding it is crucial for scholars and the wider world alike. Combining syntheses of deep research with strong explanatory frameworks, this handbook will be essentially reading for all scholars of nationalism and ideology.'
Rana Mitter, Professor, University of Oxford
'This handbook is invaluable guide to nationalism in East and Southeast Asia. It offers a comprehensive survey of the field and is an essential work of reference for scholars of nationalism.'
Gerard Delanty, Professor, University of Sussex
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The arrival of the age of nationalism and nation states
Lu Zhouxiang
Part I: Theoretical considerations
- Applying classic and contemporary nationalism theories to East and Southeast Asia today
Tina Burrett
Decolonialising Southeast Asian nationalism
Claire Sutherland
- An alternative origin of nationalism in the East: the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-western centric world order
Atsuko Ichijo
The clash of empires, the rise of nationalism, and the vicissitude of Pan-Asianism in East Asia and Southeast Asia
Yongle Zhang
Postcolonialism, nationalism and internationalism in East and Southeast Asia
Peter Herrmann
- Traditional colonialism, modern hegemonism, and the construction of Asian nations
Feilong Tian
Part II: East Asia: the roots, growth, ingredients, expressions, and contestation of national discourses
- Chinese nationalism in late Qing times: how to (not) change a multi-ethnic empire into a homogenous nation-state
Julia Schneider
- Nationalism in China, towards a non-western centric history of ideas
Zhiguang Yin
Nationalism, national salvation and the development of female hygiene in the Republic of China era
Meishan Zhang
Between a rock and a hard place: the changing Taiwanese identity and rising Chinese nationalism
Yitan Li
- China’s digital nationalism
Florian Schneider
- The dream of a strong country: nationalism and China’s Olympic journey
Lu Zhouxiang
- Conflict in Xinjiang: nationalism, identity, and violence
Arabinda Acharya and Rohan Gunaratna
- ‘Dear Asian friends, we want to build peace’: right-wing nationalism, Internationalism, and Honda Koei’s teaching about the Asia-Pacific War, 1965-1973
Yoshiko Nozaki
- Nationalism, history and collective narcissism: historical revisionism in twenty-first century Japan
Sven Saaler
- Abe’s feckless nationalism
Jeff Kingston
- Commercial nationalism and cosmopolitanism: advertising production and consumption of (trans) national identity in Japan
Koji Kobayashi
- Nation, nationalism and identity discourses in North Korean popular culture
Udo Merkel
- Taekwondo: a symbol of South Korean nationalism
Udo Moenig
- South Korea: the transition to globalist nationalism
Charles R. Kim
The emergence of calculated nationalism in South Korea in the twenty-first century
Gil-Soo Han and David Hundt
- The birth and transformation of Japanese-Korean nationalism
Masaki Tosa
Part III: Southeast Asia: ethnic and religious diversity, local rivalries, and political resistance
Nationalism, colonialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: the rise of emancipatory nationalism
Stefan Eklöf Amirell
- Comparative nation building in the borderlands between China, Myanmar, and Thailand
Enze Han
- Nationalism, ethnicity, and regional conflicts in twenty-first century Southeast Asia
Arabinda Acharya
- The making of Hoa identity: migrants, nationalism and nation-building in post-colonial Vietnam
Zhifang Song
Writing nationalism in post-reform Vietnam: portrayals of national enemies in contemporary Vietnamese fictions
Chi P. Pham
- Populist nationalism in Philippine historiography
Rommel A. Curaming
Buddhist nationalism in Burma/Myanmar: collective victimhood and ressentiment
Niklas Foxeus
- Nationalism in colonial and post-colonial Myanmar: solidarities, discordance, and the crisis of community
Maitrii Aung-Thwin
- Competing nationalisms: shifting conceptions of nation in the construction of Indonesia in the twentieth century
Joshua Kueh
- Cambodian nationalism: from ideology to alternative political resource
Kimly Ngoun
- Xāt Lao: imaging the Lao nation through race, history and language
Ryan Wolfson-Ford
- Different streams of Malay nationalism from the late colonial to contemporary Eras
Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Azmi Arifin
Singapore’s national narrative: ripe for renewal
Michael D. Barr
- Exclusion and inclusion: Melayu Islam Beraja and the construction of Bruneian nationalism and national identity
Asiyah Kumpoh and Nani Suryani Abu Bakar
- Nationalism in transition: construction and transformation of Rai Timor
Takahiro Kamisuna
- The routinization of charisma in Thai nation construction: a Weberian reading of Thai royalism, nationalism, and democracy
Jack Fong
