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1. Asserting an Ancient, Emergent Superpower: The 2009 Beijing Military Parade, Public Memory, and National Identity.

Author

JIE GONG

Subjects
GREAT powers (International relations), BALANCE of power, INTERNATIONAL relations, NATIONALISM
Abstract

On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China orchestrated a grand military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the republic. Amid China's ascendancy in the world, this national ceremony provides a rhetorical prototype to examine its communicative phenomena and sociopolitical circumstances. Deploying public memory as the conceptual framework to investigate this spectacle, I argue that the Chinese government mobilized a publicity campaign to project its national identity as an ancient, emergent superpower. To this end, the Chinese government exploited historico-cultural resources to consummate its communist leadership as historically continuous, politically orthodox, and ideologically legitimate. The parade's problematic historical representation and memorial invocation, though attaining political and ideological credentials, reveal discursive dynamics and dilemmas in the increasingly contested, globalizing sphere of Chinese politics and communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

2. Without Walls?: National Identity in Flux and China's "Rise".

Author

Carlson, Allen

Subjects
*NATIONAL character, *NATIONALISM, *POLITICAL doctrines
Abstract

This paper contends that coming to terms with the nature of China's "rise" requires a much closer examination of what Beijing wants the current world order to look like, and how it defines China's place within such a system. It argues that at the core of such issues lies an emerging struggle over defining contemporary Chinese national identity. Simply put, the paper will demonstrate that the diversity of competing identity constructs in China today is staggering, such a plurality makes it exceedingly difficult to define what those in China today want, and this trend has been largely overlooked in the existing secondary literature on China's rise and Chinese nationalism ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007

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