National identities & bilateral relations : widening gaps in East Asia and Chinese demonization of the United States

Gilbert Rozman (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0804784760 / ISBN 13: 9780804784764

Edité par Stanford University Press, 2013

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ix, 277 pages ; 24 cm. Summary:"The second of Gilbert Rozman's contributed volumes on East Asian national identity traces how efforts to draw a sharp divide between one country's identity and that of another shape relations in the post-Cold War era. It examines the two-way relations of Japan, South Korea, and China, introducing the concept of a national identity gap to estimate the degree to which the identities of two countries target each other as negative contrasts. This concept is then applied to China's reinterpretation from 2009-11 of the gap between its identity and that of the United States. Each pairing represents a key relationship through which an Asian country has historically shaped its identity, and is striving to reshape it. The volume begins with experts' analyses of how Japan, South Korea and China have changed their diplomatic environment in Asia in order to transform identity. In the second half of the book, Rozman reflects on the discomfort all three East Asian countries have from excessive dependence on the United States. He concentrates on Chinese discourse in particular, as analyzed through the ideological, temporal, sectoral, vertical, and horizontal dimensions of national identity. Even if foreign policy turns more cautionary for a time, Rozman argues that China's inflammatory identity discourse, which remains at an intensity unmatched in the other countries, will continue to have a chilling effect on prospects for pragmatic diplomacy with the U.S"-- Provided by publisher.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: National identities & bilateral relations : widening gaps in East Asia and Chinese demonization of the United States
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0804784760
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780804784764
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • International Relations
  • American History
  • China

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Synopsis

The second of Gilbert Rozman's contributed volumes on East Asian national identity traces how efforts to draw a sharp divide between one country's identity and that of another shape relations in the post-Cold War era. It examines the two-way relations of Japan, South Korea, and China, introducing the concept of a national identity gap to estimate the degree to which the identities of two countries target each other as negative contrasts. This concept is then applied to China's reinterpretation from 2009-11 of the gap between its identity and that of the United States. Each pairing represents a key relationship through which an Asian country has historically shaped its identity, and is striving to reshape it.
The volume begins with experts' analyses of how Japan, South Korea and China have changed their diplomatic environment in Asia in order to transform identity. In the second half of the book, Rozman reflects on the discomfort all three East Asian countries have from excessive dependence on the United States. He concentrates on Chinese discourse in particular, as analyzed through the ideological, temporal, sectoral, vertical, and horizontal dimensions of national identity. Even if foreign policy turns more cautionary for a time, Rozman argues that China's inflammatory identity discourse, which remains at an intensity unmatched in the other countries, will continue to have a chilling effect on prospects for pragmatic diplomacy with the U.S.

À propos de l'auteur

Gilbert Rozman is Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is the editor of East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism (Stanford and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012). Rozman was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2010-11.