• Introduction Part One: Asian Nationalism and Globalization 1. Re-awakenings? Hindu Nationalism Goes Global 2. Globalization as 'Internationalization': Perspectives on Nationalism in Japan 3. Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization: Japan's Rice Market Opening in the 1990s 4. Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia 5. A Hegemon Pursues Globalization: US Policy in the Asia Pacific 6. Globalization and the Persistence of National Political Patterns: The Indonesian Case 7. Squandered Skills? The Employment Problems of Skilled Chinese Immigrants in New Zealand ASIAN NATIONALISM IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION 8. Asian Nationalism in the Diaspora: The Case of Taiwanese Astronauts 9. Expatriating is Patriotic? The Discourse on 'New Migrants' in the People's Republic of China 10. The Dynamics of Japanese Nationalism: Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces Across Time and Space 11. The Sun Also Rises? What the New Tokyo Governor Symbolizes 12. The Japanese Authorities' Attitude Toward the Burakumin from Meiji to the Present Day Part Two: Issues in Cultural Nationalism 13. Nation, Narrative and China's New History 14. Reconciling History with the Nation? Historicity, National Particularity and the Question of Universals 15. A Century of Regret Coming to an End: The Past and Future of Dunhuang Scholarship 16. Nationalism, Cultural Imperialism and Language Reform in Occupied Japan 17. In the Poo with Japanese Mythology: The Fani-woka Entry in Harima Fudoki 18. Post-colonial Constructions of , Nation' in Indonesia 19. From Bound Feet to Niiwa: Nationalism and the Story of Women 20. Mother China Myths in Contemporary Literary Narrative 21. Mishima's Sea if Fertility as a National-Historical Novel 22. Nationalisms and Globalization in Okinawan Popular Music: Nenezu and Their Place in World Music Contexts 23. Anarchy in the UK, Solidarity in the ROK: Punk Rock Comes to Korea

Containing twenty-three chapters ranging from a few to almost forty pages - revised papers from a 1999 international conference at the University of Otago in New Zealand - the work is focused mainly on Japan and China. The authors discuss aspects of the vital matter of nationalism in Asia in an age of globalization. - Journal of Asian Studies Vol 61:3'The collection makes original contributions and should be of interest to students of modern social history of nationalism and national identity, sociology, social anthropology and ethnic studies in contemporary Asia.' - Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 25: 5