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How often do we think of cultural humiliation and failure as strengths? Against prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this provocative book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success on failure. It reveals the exercise of sovereign power where we least expect it and shows how this is crucial to our understanding of a modern world of conflict, violence, passionate suffering, and cultural difference.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Publication Date:
20 December 2005
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780804751766
Format: Hardcover
"Tsu's findings are compelling. She argues that in the wake of repeated military humiliations and the Western discourse on Chinese racial deficiency or inferiority, the formation of modern Chinese national identity was fueled by a self-perception as humiliated and deficient in a way the typically assumed patriotic pride and desire for sovereignty could never have done."
Jing Tsu is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.