The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia

This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of the formation and transformation of nationalism in fifteen East and Southeast Asian countries.

Lu Zhouxiang is an Associate Professor within the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.

Introduction: The arrival of the age of nationalism and nation states Lu Zhouxiang Part I: Theoretical considerations - Applying classic and contemporary nationalism theories to East and Southeast Asia today Tina Burrett Decolonialising Southeast Asian nationalism Claire Sutherland - An alternative origin of nationalism in the East: the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-western centric world order Atsuko Ichijo The clash of empires, the rise of nationalism, and the vicissitude of Pan-Asianism in East Asia and Southeast Asia Yongle Zhang Postcolonialism, nationalism and internationalism in East and Southeast Asia Peter Herrmann - Traditional colonialism, modern hegemonism, and the construction of Asian nations Feilong Tian Part II: East Asia: the roots, growth, ingredients, expressions, and contestation of national discourses - Chinese nationalism in late Qing times: how to (not) change a multi-ethnic empire into a homogenous nation-state Julia Schneider - Nationalism in China, towards a non-western centric history of ideas Zhiguang Yin Nationalism, national salvation and the development of female hygiene in the Republic of China era Meishan Zhang Between a rock and a hard place: the changing Taiwanese identity and rising Chinese nationalism Yitan Li - China's digital nationalism Florian Schneider - The dream of a strong country: nationalism and China's Olympic journey Lu Zhouxiang - Conflict in Xinjiang: nationalism, identity, and violence Arabinda Acharya and Rohan Gunaratna - 'Dear Asian friends, we want to build peace': right-wing nationalism, Internationalism, and Honda Koei's teaching about the Asia-Pacific War, 1965-1973 Yoshiko Nozaki - Nationalism, history and collective narcissism: historical revisionism in twenty-first century Japan Sven Saaler - Abe's feckless nationalism Jeff Kingston - Commercial nationalism and cosmopolitanism: advertising production and consumption of (trans) national identity in Japan Koji Kobayashi - Nation, nationalism and identity discourses in North Korean popular culture Udo Merkel - Taekwondo: a symbol of South Korean nationalism Udo Moenig - South Korea: the transition to globalist nationalism Charles R. Kim The emergence of calculated nationalism in South Korea in the twenty-first century Gil-Soo Han and David Hundt - The birth and transformation of Japanese-Korean nationalism Masaki Tosa Part III: Southeast Asia: ethnic and religious diversity, local rivalries, and political resistance Nationalism, colonialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: the rise of emancipatory nationalism Stefan Eklöf Amirell - Comparative nation building in the borderlands between China, Myanmar, and Thailand Enze Han - Nationalism, ethnicity, and regional conflicts in twenty-first century Southeast Asia Arabinda Acharya - The making of Hoa identity: migrants, nationalism and nation-building in post-colonial Vietnam Zhifang Song Writing nationalism in post-reform Vietnam: portrayals of national enemies in contemporary Vietnamese fictions Chi P. Pham - Populist nationalism in Philippine historiography Rommel A. Curaming Buddhist nationalism in Burma/Myanmar: collective victimhood and ressentiment Niklas Foxeus - Nationalism in colonial and post-colonial Myanmar: solidarities, discordance, and the crisis of community Maitrii Aung-Thwin - Competing nationalisms: shifting conceptions of nation in the construction of Indonesia in the twentieth century Joshua Kueh - Cambodian nationalism: from ideology to alternative political resource Kimly Ngoun - X-t Lao: imaging the Lao nation through race, history and language Ryan Wolfson-Ford - Different streams of Malay nationalism from the late colonial to contemporary Eras Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Azmi Arifin Singapore's national narrative: ripe for renewal Michael D. Barr - Exclusion and inclusion: Melayu Islam Beraja and the construction of Bruneian nationalism and national identity Asiyah Kumpoh and Nani Suryani Abu Bakar - Nationalism in transition: construction and transformation of Rai Timor Takahiro Kamisuna - The routinization of charisma in Thai nation construction: a Weberian reading of Thai royalism, nationalism, and democracy Jack Fong