The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia

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

'Professor Lu Zhouxiang has done an excellent job in bringing together a range of essays – both general and focused on particular states, regions, and themes – concerned with nationalism in both East and South-East Asia. This will be of value to the general reader by virtue of its breadth of coverage. It will also help historians and social scientists in the field to contextualise their own findings in light of similar work by other specialists.'
John Breuilly, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Nationalism is one of the most powerful and important factors to shape Asia, one of the most dynamic areas in the world, and understanding it is crucial for scholars and the wider world alike. Combining syntheses of deep research with strong explanatory frameworks, this handbook will be essentially reading for all scholars of nationalism and ideology.'
Rana Mitter, Professor, University of Oxford
'This handbook is invaluable guide to nationalism in East and Southeast Asia. It offers a comprehensive survey of the field and is an essential work of reference for scholars of nationalism.'
Gerard Delanty, Professor, University of Sussex

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

• Xāt 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