Never forget national humiliation : historical memory in Chinese politics and foreign relations /

How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s?...

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Main Author: Wang, Zheng, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
Series:Contemporary Asia in the world.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From "tank man" to China's new patriots
  • Historical memory, identity, and politics
  • Chosen glory, chosen trauma
  • From "all-under-heaven" to a nation-state : national humiliation and nation building
  • From victor to victim : the patriotic education campaign
  • From vanguard to patriot : reconstructing the Chinese Communist Party
  • From earthquake to Olympics : new trauma, new glory
  • Memory, crises, and foreign relations
  • Memory, textbooks, and Sino-Japanese reconciliation
  • Memory, nationalism, and China's rise.