1st Edition

Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era

By Christopher R. Hughes Copyright 2006
196 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Presenting an analysis of the tension between nationalism and globalization in China since the beginning of the ‘reform and opening’ period in the late 1970s to the present day, this book makes a unique contribution to the on-going debate on the nature of Chinese nationalism. It shows how nationalism is used to link together key areas of policy-making, including economic policy, national... Read more

Introduction: Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era  1. The Globalization of Nationalism Under ‘Reform and Opening’  2. After 1989: Nationalism and the New Global Elite  3. Globalization and its Discontents  4. What Kind of a Status Quo Power?

Biography

Christopher R. Hughes is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics, where he was Director of the Asia Research Centre, 2002-2005. He has published extensively on Chinese nationalism, including Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism (Routledge, 1997) and China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward (ed. with Gudrun Wacker) (Routledge, 2003).

'Offers a very interesting insight into the foreign policy debates in Beijing, especially over the past decade.' - The Guardian