Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Overseas Chinese and ethnic minorities in imperial and Republican China; 2 Overseas Chinese and minority nationalities in socialist nation-building; 3 Post-socialist modernisation and China's national outlook; 4 Ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese in the post-socialist modernisation discourse; 5 Transnationalising Chineseness: 'Overseas Chinese work' in the reform period; 6 The politics of localisation: Ethnic minorities in post-socialist modernisation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
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Summary
Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China's national project, whose membership criteria have evolved historically. By looking specifically at the ascribed roles of China's ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese in successive state-led modernisation efforts, this book offers new perspectives on the changing boundaries of the Chinese nation. It places domestic
