Nationalism in Asia

Jeff Kingston is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan Campus. He has written widely on modern Japanese history and Japan's relations with Asia. He is the author of Japan in Transformation 1952--2000 (2001). Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (2004), and Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s (Wiley Blackwell, second edition, 2012). He is the editor of Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan (2012) and Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (2014).  He was a Fulbright scholar in Indonesia during the mid-1980s and has been traveling around and reporting on Asia since then, often providing commentary to international media on social and political developments in the region and writes a weekly column "Counterpoint" for the Japan Times.

• Acknowledgements viiMaps viiiIntroduction xvPart I National Identity 11 The Idea of Nation 32 Contemporary Culture Wars and National Identity 163 Nation Branding Confronts Troubling Realities 39Part II Political Economy and Spectacle 574 Economic Nationalism 595 Democracy and Nationalism 886 Sports Nationalism 118Part III Shackles of the Past 1457 Chosen and Unchosen Traumas 1478 Museums and Memorials 1709 Textbook Nationalism and Memory Wars 196Part IV Flashpoints and Fringes 21710 Nationalism and Territorial Disputes 21911 Nationalism and the Fringes 243Select Bibliographical Guide to Nationalisms in Asia 273Index 303