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.

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