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Author Wang, Zheng, 1968- author.

Title Never forget national humiliation : historical memory in Chinese politics and foreign relations / Zheng Wang
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Asia in the world
Contemporary Asia in the world.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-278) and index
Notes Description based on print version record; title from digital title page (viewed August 4, 2023)
SUBJECT Zhong guo gong chan dang gnd
China Zusammenstellung gnd
Subject Collective memory -- Political aspects -- China
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
Außenpolitik
Politische Elite
SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024030
China -- Politics and government -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024174
China -- Foreign relations -- Psychological aspects
Subject China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231520166
9780231520164
Other Titles Historical memory in Chinese politics and foreign relations