368 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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The general tendency among theorists in nationalism and national identity has been to assume that the modernization process in Asia and Africa is a kind of distorted reflection of a Western precedent; Asian forms of the nation have rarely been seen as independent, alternative models. Among today's leading theoreticians, there is a growing tendency to take Asia seriously, and to include Asian... Read more
1: Asia in Theories of Nationalism and National Identity; 2: The Frontiers of Japanese Identity; 3: Maps and the Formation of the Geo-Body of Siam; 4: Annam and Vietnam in the New Indochinese Space, 1887–1945; 5: Gender and Nation in Hindu Nationalism; 6: Contradictions and Ambivalence in the Hindu Nationalist Discourse in West Bengal; 7: ‘This God-Forsaken Country': Filipino Images of the Nation; 8: Blood, Territory and National Identity in Himalayan States; 9: The Karen Making of a Nation; 10: Nationalism Transcending the State: Changing Conceptions of Chinese Identity; 11: The Construction of the Post-Colonial Subject in Malaysia; 12: Nations-of-Intent in Malaysia
Biography
Stein Tonnesson, Hans Antlov
