Social Construction of National Reality

Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Social Construction of National Reality:Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong applies Peter Berger’s theory of social construction of reality to explain the origins of national identity and the process of nation building. Professor Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan examine how everyday life experiences, as a result of socialization, germinate ingroup and outgroup which differentiate nationals and foreigners. Using this theory to advance an understanding of conflicts between national groups, Yu and Kwan analyze how national consciousnesses have precipitated the Taiwan Strait Crisis, upheavals in Tibet, and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-10-14
Mått160 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor178
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498592420

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Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Social Construction of National Reality: Towards a Theory of National Consciousness and IdentityChapter 3: Historical Origins of China’s National Identity: Grand Unification Doctrine, Great Han Mentality, Patriotism and NationalismChapter 4: The Taiwan Strait Conflict: Taiwanese Consciousness versus Chinese ConsciousnessChapter 5: Tension in Tibet: Tibetan Buddhism against Chinese Cultural AssimilationChapter 6: Explaining the Rise of Hong Kong Consciousness: Localization against MainlandizationChapter 7: A Comparative Analysis on the Taiwan Strait Conflict, Tibet’s Tension and Hong Kong’s Localization Movement

Social Construction of National Reality: Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong is a highly interesting book, using the phenomenological sociology of Berger and Luckmann—as well as Weber and Schutz—to shed light on the struggles over identity and belonging being waged between China and Taiwan/Tibet/Hong Kong. If both mainland Chinese unificationists and Taiwanese/Tibetan/Hongkonger separatists were to read this clearly-written and clearly-argued book, they might come to a deeper understanding of one another's seemingly intractable positions and why those positions are held—an understanding that in today's tense times is all too lacking.