ABSTRACT

This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of the formation and transformation of nationalism in 15 East and Southeast Asian countries.

Written by a team of international scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines, this volume offers new perspectives on studying Asian history, society, culture, and politics, and provides readers with a unique lens through which to better contextualise and understand the relationships between countries within East and Southeast Asia, and between Asia and the world. It highlights the latest developments in the field and contributes to our knowledge and understanding of nationalism and nation building. Comprehensive and clearly written, this book examines a diverse set of topics that include theoretical considerations on nationalism and internationalism; the formation of nationalism and national identity in the colonial and postcolonial eras; the relationships between traditional culture, religion, ethnicity, education, gender, technology, sport, and nationalism; the influence of popular culture on nationalism; and politics, policy, and national identity. It illustrates how nationalism helped to draw the borders between the nations of East and Southeast Asia, and how it is re-emerging in the twenty-first century to shape the region and the world into the future.

The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia is essential reading for those interested in and studying Asian history, Social and Cultural history, and modern history.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

The arrival of the age of nationalism and nation states

part I|86 pages

Theoretical considerations

chapter 3|12 pages

An alternative origin of nationalism in the East

The emergence of political subjectivity under the non-Western-centric world order

part II|252 pages

East Asia

chapter 7|14 pages

Chinese nationalism in late Qing times

How to (not) change a multi-ethnic empire into a homogenous nation-state

chapter 10|16 pages

Between a rock and a hard place

The changing Taiwanese identity and rising Chinese nationalism

chapter 11|14 pages

China's digital nationalism

chapter 12|15 pages

The dream of a strong country

Nationalism and China's Olympic journey

chapter 13|17 pages

Conflict in Xinjiang

Nationalism, identity, and violence

chapter 14|21 pages

‘Dear Asian friends, we want to build peace’

Rightwing nationalism, internationalism, and Honda Koei's teaching about the Asia-Pacific War, 1965–1973

chapter 15|16 pages

Nationalism, history, and collective narcissism

Historical revisionism in twenty-first-century Japan

chapter 16|17 pages

Abe's feckless nationalism

chapter 17|13 pages

Commercial nationalism and cosmopolitanism

Advertising production and consumption of (trans)national identity in Japan

chapter 19|13 pages

Taekwondo

A symbol of South Korean nationalism

part III|242 pages

Southeast Asia

chapter 23|14 pages

Nationalism, colonialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia

The rise of emancipatory nationalism

chapter 26|12 pages

The making of Hoa identity

Migrants, nationalism and nation-building in post-colonial Vietnam

chapter 27|13 pages

Writing nationalism in post-reform Vietnam

Portrayals of national enemies in contemporary Vietnamese fiction

chapter 29|18 pages

Buddhist nationalism in Burma/Myanmar

Collective victimhood and ressentiment

chapter 30|14 pages

Nationalism in colonial and postcolonial Myanmar

Solidarities, discordance, and the crisis of community

chapter 31|15 pages

Competing nationalisms

Shifting conceptions of nation in the construction of Indonesia in the twentieth century

chapter 32|16 pages

A journey through Cambodian nationalism

Political, elite and popular

chapter 33|15 pages

Xāt Lao

Imagining the Lao nation through race, history and language

chapter 35|15 pages

Singapore's national narrative

Ripe for renewal

chapter 36|12 pages

Exclusion and inclusion

Melayu Islam Beraja and the construction of Bruneian nationalism and national identity

chapter 37|15 pages

Nationalism in transition

Construction and transformation of Rai Timor

chapter 38|19 pages

The routinization of charisma in Thai nation construction

A Weberian reading of Thai royalism, nationalism, and democracy