Social construction of national identity Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong
"Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan examine the Taiwan Strait Crisis and upheavals in Tibet and Hong Kong through the lens of Peter Berger's theory of social construction of reality in order to explain the origins of national identity and the process of nation building"--
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Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
Lexington Books
[2020]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Social construction of national reality : towards a theory of national consciousness and identity
- Historical origins of China's national identity : grand unification doctrine, great Han mentality, patriotism and nationalism
- The Taiwan Strait conflict : Taiwanese consciousness versus Chinese consciousness
- Tension in Tibet : Tibetan Buddhism against Chinese cultural assimilation
- Explaining the rise of Hong Kong consciousness : localization against mainlandization
- A comparative analysis on the Taiwan Strait conflict, Tibet's tension and Hong Kong's localization movement