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Contemporary Asia in the World Ser.: Never Forget National Humiliation : Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang (2012, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherColumbia University Press

ISBN-100231148909

ISBN-139780231148900

eBay Product ID (ePID)113107089

Product Key Features

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNever Forget National Humiliation : Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations

SubjectInternational Relations / General, World / Asian, International Relations / Diplomacy

Publication Year2012

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science

AuthorZheng Wang

SeriesContemporary Asia in the World Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight19.9 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2012-015969

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsZheng Wang's Never Forget National Humiliation presents a powerful, convincing, and timely discussion about one of the most important and sustaining factors shaping China's modern history and its tortuous course of integration into the international community. Based on extensive and solid research, his is a study with critical scholarly values and pivotal contemporary relevance. For those who want a deeper understanding of the Chinese conceptual realm still profoundly penetrated by the Chinese 'victim mentality' in the era of 'China's rise,' this is a book they cannot afford to ignore., A future world where the Chinese are at peace with their own past seems a long wayaway. But that is the place, as this useful study of such a difficult area, where we need toget to., Wang Zheng's Never Forget National Humiliation presents a powerful, convincing, and timely discussion about one of the most important and sustaining factors shaping China's modern history and its tortuous course of integration into the international community. Based on extensive and solid research, this is a study with critical scholarly values and pivotal contemporary relevance. For those who want to have a deeper understanding of the Chinese conceptual realm still profoundly penetrated by the Chinese "victim mentality" at the era of "China's rise," this is a book they cannot afford to ignore., Why are young Chinese so patriotic and anti-Western? Because of historical memory, says Wang Cheng. His book reads like a revelation. It is at once an insider's account and a masterful scholarly analysis of how history is taught in China - and how this shapes its foreign policy outlook., Why are young Chinese so patriotic and anti-Western? Because of historical memory, says Zheng Wang. His book reads like a revelation. It is at once an insider's account and a masterful scholarly analysis of how history is taught in China and how this shapes its foreign policy outlook., Even though a great deal has been published on Chinese nationalism in recent years, Zheng Wang's careful treatment of this important subject has a great deal to offer. And to his credit, the author makes the most of the fact that, unlike most previous authors of scholarly works on related themes, he grew up being exposed to and has childhood memories of the patriotic myths that he takes pains to dissect., A future world where the Chinese are at peace with their own past seems a long way away. But that is the place, as this useful study of such a difficult area, where we need to get to., This work is highly recommended for general readers as well as Asia scholars. It is a must for any serious library collection on Asia. Essential., Wang gives us a critically important book that provides a solid blueprint for understandingcontemporary China., Wang gives us a critically important book that provides a solid blueprint for understanding contemporary China., A timely and well-researched book, Never Forget National Humiliation qualifies as a landmark in the study of Chinese nationalism.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal327.51

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: From Tank Man to China's New Patriots 1. Historical Memory, Identity, and Politics 2. Chosen Glory, Chosen Trauma 3. From All-Under-Heaven to a Nation-State: Humiliation and Nation-Building 4. From Victor to Victim: The Patriotic Education Campaign 5. From Vanguard to Patriot: Reconstructing the Chinese Communist Party 6. From Earthquake to Olympics: New Trauma, New Glory 7. Memory, Crises, and Foreign Relations 8. Memory, Textbooks, and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation 9. Memory, Nationalism, and China's Rise Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisHow did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regain the support of 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? And why has China become more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy? Zheng Wang offers an explanation for these trends as he follows and analyzes the CCP's ideological reeducation of the public, which relentlessly portrays China as the victim of "one hundred years of humiliation" and foreign imperialist bullying in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Wang uses historical memory to decode China's political transition, popular sentiment, and international behavior in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era. He also explores the role that historical memory has played in China's rise, its manipulation by political elites, its resonance in the popular imagination, and its ability to constrain and shape China's foreign relations with major powers., 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? And why has China been more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy but relatively conciliatory toward smaller countries in conflict? Offering an explanation for these unexpected trends, Zheng Wang follows the Communist government's ideological reeducation of the public, which relentlessly portrays China as the victim of foreign imperialist bullying during "one hundred years of humiliation." By concentrating on the telling and teaching of history in today's China, Wang illuminates the thinking of the young patriots who will lead this rising power in the twenty-first century. Wang visits China's primary schools and memory sites and reads its history textbooks, arguing that China's rise should not be viewed through a single lens, such as economics or military growth, but from a more comprehensive perspective that takes national identity and domestic discourse into account. Since it is the prime raw material for constructing China's national identity, historical memory is the key to unlocking the inner mystery of the Chinese. From this vantage point, Wang tracks the CCP's use of history education to glorify the party, reestablish its legitimacy, consolidate national identity, and justify one-party rule in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era. The institutionalization of this manipulated historical consciousness now directs political discourse and foreign policy, and Wang demonstrates its important role in China's rise.

LC Classification NumberJZ1734.W38 2012