History and Nationalist Legitimacy in Contemporary China

Robert Weatherley is Affiliated Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK.  He also works as a commercial lawyer for the UK law firm Mills & Reeve LLP. Qiang Zhang is Researcher at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK. Prior to this, he was a BBC journalist for 11 years.

• Introduction.- 1. Turning to Nationalism - Another Crisis of Regime Legitimacy for the CCP.- 2.  Aggressive Nationalism - Utilising the Yuanmingyuan Incident.- 3. Aggressive Nationalism - The Legacy of Japanese Imperialism in China.- 4. Consensual Nationalism - The KMT and the Second Sino-Japanese War.- 5.   Consensual Nationalism - The Republican Era and the Rise of Republican Fever.- Conclusion.