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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trend has been largely overlooked in the existing secondary literature on China's rise and Chinese nationalism ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]