Lu Zhouxiang is an Associate Professor within the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.

'Professor Lu Zhouxiang has done an excellent job in bringing together a range of essays – both general and focused on particular states, regions, and themes – concerned with nationalism in both East and South-East Asia. This will be of value to the general reader by virtue of its breadth of coverage. It will also help historians and social scientists in the field to contextualise their own findings in light of similar work by other specialists.'John Breuilly, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science'Nationalism is one of the most powerful and important factors to shape Asia, one of the most dynamic areas in the world, and understanding it is crucial for scholars and the wider world alike. Combining syntheses of deep research with strong explanatory frameworks, this handbook will be essentially reading for all scholars of nationalism and ideology.'Rana Mitter, Professor, University of Oxford'This handbook is invaluable guide to nationalism in East and Southeast Asia. It offers a comprehensive survey of the field and is an essential work of reference for scholars of nationalism.'Gerard Delanty, Professor, University of Sussex

• Introduction: The arrival of the age of nationalism and nation statesLu Zhouxiang Part I: Theoretical considerationsApplying classic and contemporary nationalism theories to East and Southeast Asia todayTina BurrettDecolonialising Southeast Asian nationalismClaire SutherlandAn alternative origin of nationalism in the East: the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-western centric world orderAtsuko IchijoThe clash of empires, the rise of nationalism, and the vicissitude of Pan-Asianism in East Asia and Southeast AsiaYongle ZhangPostcolonialism, nationalism and internationalism in East and Southeast AsiaPeter HerrmannTraditional colonialism, modern hegemonism, and the construction of Asian nationsFeilong TianPart II: East Asia: the roots, growth, ingredients, expressions, and contestation of national discoursesChinese nationalism in late Qing times: how to (not) change a multi-ethnic empire into a homogenous nation-stateJulia SchneiderNationalism in China, towards a non-western centric history of ideasZhiguang YinNationalism, national salvation and the development of female hygiene in the Republic of China eraMeishan ZhangBetween a rock and a hard place: the changing Taiwanese identity and rising Chinese nationalismYitan LiChina’s digital nationalismFlorian SchneiderThe dream of a strong country: nationalism and China’s Olympic journeyLu ZhouxiangConflict in Xinjiang: nationalism, identity, and violenceArabinda Acharya and Rohan Gunaratna‘Dear Asian friends, we want to build peace’: right-wing nationalism, Internationalism, and Honda Koei’s teaching about the Asia-Pacific War, 1965-1973Yoshiko NozakiNationalism, history and collective narcissism: historical revisionism in twenty-first century JapanSven SaalerAbe’s feckless nationalismJeff KingstonCommercial nationalism and cosmopolitanism: advertising production and consumption of (trans) national identity in JapanKoji KobayashiNation, nationalism and identity discourses in North Korean popular cultureUdo MerkelTaekwondo: a symbol of South Korean nationalismUdo MoenigSouth Korea: the transition to globalist nationalismCharles R. KimThe emergence of calculated nationalism in South Korea in the twenty-first centuryGil-Soo Han and David HundtThe birth and transformation of Japanese-Korean nationalismMasaki TosaPart III: Southeast Asia: ethnic and religious diversity, local rivalries, and political resistanceNationalism, colonialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: the rise of emancipatory nationalismStefan Eklöf AmirellComparative nation building in the borderlands between China, Myanmar, and ThailandEnze HanNationalism, ethnicity, and regional conflicts in twenty-first century Southeast AsiaArabinda AcharyaThe making of Hoa identity: migrants, nationalism and nation-building in post-colonial VietnamZhifang SongWriting nationalism in post-reform Vietnam: portrayals of national enemies in contemporary Vietnamese fictionsChi P. PhamPopulist nationalism in Philippine historiographyRommel A. CuramingBuddhist nationalism in Burma/Myanmar: collective victimhood and ressentimentNiklas FoxeusNationalism in colonial and post-colonial Myanmar: solidarities, discordance, and the crisis of communityMaitrii Aung-ThwinCompeting nationalisms: shifting conceptions of nation in the construction of Indonesia in the twentieth centuryJoshua KuehCambodian nationalism: from ideology to alternative political resourceKimly NgounXāt Lao: imaging the Lao nation through race, history and languageRyan Wolfson-FordDifferent streams of Malay nationalism from the late colonial to contemporary ErasAhmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Azmi ArifinSingapore’s national narrative: ripe for renewalMichael D. BarrExclusion and inclusion: Melayu Islam Beraja and the construction of Bruneian nationalism and national identityAsiyah Kumpoh and Nani Suryani Abu BakarNationalism in transition: construction and transformation of Rai TimorTakahiro KamisunaThe routinization of charisma in Thai nation construction: a Weberian reading of Thai royalism, nationalism, and democracyJack Fong

Lu Zhouxiang is an Associate Professor within the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.

'Professor Lu Zhouxiang has done an excellent job in bringing together a range of essays – both general and focused on particular states, regions, and themes – concerned with nationalism in both East and South-East Asia. This will be of value to the general reader by virtue of its breadth of coverage. It will also help historians and social scientists in the field to contextualise their own findings in light of similar work by other specialists.'John Breuilly, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science'Nationalism is one of the most powerful and important factors to shape Asia, one of the most dynamic areas in the world, and understanding it is crucial for scholars and the wider world alike. Combining syntheses of deep research with strong explanatory frameworks, this handbook will be essentially reading for all scholars of nationalism and ideology.'Rana Mitter, Professor, University of Oxford'This handbook is invaluable guide to nationalism in East and Southeast Asia. It offers a comprehensive survey of the field and is an essential work of reference for scholars of nationalism.'Gerard Delanty, Professor, University of Sussex

• Introduction: The arrival of the age of nationalism and nation statesLu Zhouxiang Part I: Theoretical considerationsApplying classic and contemporary nationalism theories to East and Southeast Asia todayTina BurrettDecolonialising Southeast Asian nationalismClaire SutherlandAn alternative origin of nationalism in the East: the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-western centric world orderAtsuko IchijoThe clash of empires, the rise of nationalism, and the vicissitude of Pan-Asianism in East Asia and Southeast AsiaYongle ZhangPostcolonialism, nationalism and internationalism in East and Southeast AsiaPeter HerrmannTraditional colonialism, modern hegemonism, and the construction of Asian nationsFeilong TianPart II: East Asia: the roots, growth, ingredients, expressions, and contestation of national discoursesChinese nationalism in late Qing times: how to (not) change a multi-ethnic empire into a homogenous nation-stateJulia SchneiderNationalism in China, towards a non-western centric history of ideasZhiguang YinNationalism, national salvation and the development of female hygiene in the Republic of China eraMeishan ZhangBetween a rock and a hard place: the changing Taiwanese identity and rising Chinese nationalismYitan LiChina’s digital nationalismFlorian SchneiderThe dream of a strong country: nationalism and China’s Olympic journeyLu ZhouxiangConflict in Xinjiang: nationalism, identity, and violenceArabinda Acharya and Rohan Gunaratna‘Dear Asian friends, we want to build peace’: right-wing nationalism, Internationalism, and Honda Koei’s teaching about the Asia-Pacific War, 1965-1973Yoshiko NozakiNationalism, history and collective narcissism: historical revisionism in twenty-first century JapanSven SaalerAbe’s feckless nationalismJeff KingstonCommercial nationalism and cosmopolitanism: advertising production and consumption of (trans) national identity in JapanKoji KobayashiNation, nationalism and identity discourses in North Korean popular cultureUdo MerkelTaekwondo: a symbol of South Korean nationalismUdo MoenigSouth Korea: the transition to globalist nationalismCharles R. KimThe emergence of calculated nationalism in South Korea in the twenty-first centuryGil-Soo Han and David HundtThe birth and transformation of Japanese-Korean nationalismMasaki TosaPart III: Southeast Asia: ethnic and religious diversity, local rivalries, and political resistanceNationalism, colonialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: the rise of emancipatory nationalismStefan Eklöf AmirellComparative nation building in the borderlands between China, Myanmar, and ThailandEnze HanNationalism, ethnicity, and regional conflicts in twenty-first century Southeast AsiaArabinda AcharyaThe making of Hoa identity: migrants, nationalism and nation-building in post-colonial VietnamZhifang SongWriting nationalism in post-reform Vietnam: portrayals of national enemies in contemporary Vietnamese fictionsChi P. PhamPopulist nationalism in Philippine historiographyRommel A. CuramingBuddhist nationalism in Burma/Myanmar: collective victimhood and ressentimentNiklas FoxeusNationalism in colonial and post-colonial Myanmar: solidarities, discordance, and the crisis of communityMaitrii Aung-ThwinCompeting nationalisms: shifting conceptions of nation in the construction of Indonesia in the twentieth centuryJoshua KuehCambodian nationalism: from ideology to alternative political resourceKimly NgounXāt Lao: imaging the Lao nation through race, history and languageRyan Wolfson-FordDifferent streams of Malay nationalism from the late colonial to contemporary ErasAhmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Azmi ArifinSingapore’s national narrative: ripe for renewalMichael D. BarrExclusion and inclusion: Melayu Islam Beraja and the construction of Bruneian nationalism and national identityAsiyah Kumpoh and Nani Suryani Abu BakarNationalism in transition: construction and transformation of Rai TimorTakahiro KamisunaThe routinization of charisma in Thai nation construction: a Weberian reading of Thai royalism, nationalism, and democracyJack Fong

Lu Zhouxiang is an Associate Professor within the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.

'Professor Lu Zhouxiang has done an excellent job in bringing together a range of essays – both general and focused on particular states, regions, and themes – concerned with nationalism in both East and South-East Asia. This will be of value to the general reader by virtue of its breadth of coverage. It will also help historians and social scientists in the field to contextualise their own findings in light of similar work by other specialists.'John Breuilly, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science'Nationalism is one of the most powerful and important factors to shape Asia, one of the most dynamic areas in the world, and understanding it is crucial for scholars and the wider world alike. Combining syntheses of deep research with strong explanatory frameworks, this handbook will be essentially reading for all scholars of nationalism and ideology.'Rana Mitter, Professor, University of Oxford'This handbook is invaluable guide to nationalism in East and Southeast Asia. It offers a comprehensive survey of the field and is an essential work of reference for scholars of nationalism.'Gerard Delanty, Professor, University of Sussex

• Introduction: The arrival of the age of nationalism and nation statesLu Zhouxiang Part I: Theoretical considerationsApplying classic and contemporary nationalism theories to East and Southeast Asia todayTina BurrettDecolonialising Southeast Asian nationalismClaire SutherlandAn alternative origin of nationalism in the East: the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-western centric world orderAtsuko IchijoThe clash of empires, the rise of nationalism, and the vicissitude of Pan-Asianism in East Asia and Southeast AsiaYongle ZhangPostcolonialism, nationalism and internationalism in East and Southeast AsiaPeter HerrmannTraditional colonialism, modern hegemonism, and the construction of Asian nationsFeilong TianPart II: East Asia: the roots, growth, ingredients, expressions, and contestation of national discoursesChinese nationalism in late Qing times: how to (not) change a multi-ethnic empire into a homogenous nation-stateJulia SchneiderNationalism in China, towards a non-western centric history of ideasZhiguang YinNationalism, national salvation and the development of female hygiene in the Republic of China eraMeishan ZhangBetween a rock and a hard place: the changing Taiwanese identity and rising Chinese nationalismYitan LiChina’s digital nationalismFlorian SchneiderThe dream of a strong country: nationalism and China’s Olympic journeyLu ZhouxiangConflict in Xinjiang: nationalism, identity, and violenceArabinda Acharya and Rohan Gunaratna‘Dear Asian friends, we want to build peace’: right-wing nationalism, Internationalism, and Honda Koei’s teaching about the Asia-Pacific War, 1965-1973Yoshiko NozakiNationalism, history and collective narcissism: historical revisionism in twenty-first century JapanSven SaalerAbe’s feckless nationalismJeff KingstonCommercial nationalism and cosmopolitanism: advertising production and consumption of (trans) national identity in JapanKoji KobayashiNation, nationalism and identity discourses in North Korean popular cultureUdo MerkelTaekwondo: a symbol of South Korean nationalismUdo MoenigSouth Korea: the transition to globalist nationalismCharles R. KimThe emergence of calculated nationalism in South Korea in the twenty-first centuryGil-Soo Han and David HundtThe birth and transformation of Japanese-Korean nationalismMasaki TosaPart III: Southeast Asia: ethnic and religious diversity, local rivalries, and political resistanceNationalism, colonialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: the rise of emancipatory nationalismStefan Eklöf AmirellComparative nation building in the borderlands between China, Myanmar, and ThailandEnze HanNationalism, ethnicity, and regional conflicts in twenty-first century Southeast AsiaArabinda AcharyaThe making of Hoa identity: migrants, nationalism and nation-building in post-colonial VietnamZhifang SongWriting nationalism in post-reform Vietnam: portrayals of national enemies in contemporary Vietnamese fictionsChi P. PhamPopulist nationalism in Philippine historiographyRommel A. CuramingBuddhist nationalism in Burma/Myanmar: collective victimhood and ressentimentNiklas FoxeusNationalism in colonial and post-colonial Myanmar: solidarities, discordance, and the crisis of communityMaitrii Aung-ThwinCompeting nationalisms: shifting conceptions of nation in the construction of Indonesia in the twentieth centuryJoshua KuehCambodian nationalism: from ideology to alternative political resourceKimly NgounXāt Lao: imaging the Lao nation through race, history and languageRyan Wolfson-FordDifferent streams of Malay nationalism from the late colonial to contemporary ErasAhmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Azmi ArifinSingapore’s national narrative: ripe for renewalMichael D. BarrExclusion and inclusion: Melayu Islam Beraja and the construction of Bruneian nationalism and national identityAsiyah Kumpoh and Nani Suryani Abu BakarNationalism in transition: construction and transformation of Rai TimorTakahiro KamisunaThe routinization of charisma in Thai nation construction: a Weberian reading of Thai royalism, nationalism, and democracyJack Fong