Realpolitik Nationalism: International Sources of Chinese Nationalism Export

@article{citeulike:5931764, abstract = {Conventional understandings of Chinese nationalism often portray it as anti-Western, focusing on Chinese nationalists' obsession with a powerful state and on their ambition to recover the glory of China's historical empire. Such understandings clearly underlie the fear and hostility toward rising Chinese nationalism today. But this view relies too heavily on China's conflictive relations with the West and overemphasizes the impact of China's unique history, culture, and politics, making it hard, if not impossible, to draw on the concept of nationalism in understanding China's relations with its non-Western neighbors. Such a perspective neglects the importance of ideas and ideals from the international system that animate Chinese nationalism. In this article, the author characterizes Chinese nationalism as fusing realpolitik ideas and ideals and a fervent quest for national identity and power. A realpolitik nationalist, as defined here, is someone who frames an external threat to China in terms not of the country's unique culture or history but of a breach of the prevailing norms of the nation-state system, whose key dimensions include sovereignty, territoriality, and international legitimacy. Finally, the author applies this notion in examining China's conflicts with India in 1962 and with the Southeast Asian countries involved in the dispute over the Spratly Islands.}, author = {Guang, Lei}, citeulike-article-id = {5931764}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20062622}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/20062622}, doi = {10.2307/20062622}, issn = {00977004}, journal = {Modern China}, keywords = {communism, government, realpolitik}, number = {4}, pages = {487--514}, posted-at = {2009-10-13 01:46:54}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publications, Inc.}, title = {Realpolitik Nationalism: International Sources of Chinese Nationalism}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20062622}, volume = {31}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5931764 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5931764 N2 - Conventional understandings of Chinese nationalism often portray it as anti-Western, focusing on Chinese nationalists' obsession with a powerful state and on their ambition to recover the glory of China's historical empire. Such understandings clearly underlie the fear and hostility toward rising Chinese nationalism today. But this view relies too heavily on China's conflictive relations with the West and overemphasizes the impact of China's unique history, culture, and politics, making it hard, if not impossible, to draw on the concept of nationalism in understanding China's relations with its non-Western neighbors. Such a perspective neglects the importance of ideas and ideals from the international system that animate Chinese nationalism. In this article, the author characterizes Chinese nationalism as fusing realpolitik ideas and ideals and a fervent quest for national identity and power. A realpolitik nationalist, as defined here, is someone who frames an external threat to China in terms not of the country's unique culture or history but of a breach of the prevailing norms of the nation-state system, whose key dimensions include sovereignty, territoriality, and international legitimacy. Finally, the author applies this notion in examining China's conflicts with India in 1962 and with the Southeast Asian countries involved in the dispute over the Spratly Islands. IS - 4 JF - Modern China SN - 00977004 EP - 514 TI - Realpolitik Nationalism: International Sources of Chinese Nationalism PB - Sage Publications, Inc. VL - 31 SP - 487 KW - communism KW - government KW - realpolitik AU - Guang, Lei PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20062622 ER -