Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations

This pioneering volume illuminates a crucial new frontier in the popular articulation of Chinese nationalism in this age of hi-tech global instant communication via the Internet. Its Sino-external interface case studies vividly amplify the internet as a powerful transformational instrument with profound academic, economic, political, diplomatic and strategic impact. Those keen to learn the fuller dimensions and implications of a rising China as an electronically-connected soft power player with domestic realpolitik consequences will enjoy its rich details and refreshing findings... -- Ming K. CHAN, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University Simon Shen and Shaun Breslin note how the emergence of an online civil society in China intrinsically provides some form of supervision of state power, and perhaps even a check on it. * Brookings, June 2010 * This volume is one of the most original and important volumes for years on China's international relations. It looks at the growing phenomenon of the emergence of a quasi-civil society in China via the internet, and uses it as a basis for a rethinking of how China relates to the rest of the world, including the battlegrounds with the Western world for power such as Africa and Latin America. This is truly international relations for the century to come. -- Rana Mitter, University of Oxford This pioneering volume illuminates a crucial new frontier in the popular articulation of Chinese nationalism in this age of hi-tech global instant communication via the Internet. Its Sino-external interface case studies vividly amplify the internet as a powerful transformational instrument with profound academic, economic, political, diplomatic and strategic impact. Those keen to learn the fuller dimensions and implications of a rising China as an electronically-connected soft power player with domestic realpolitik consequences will enjoy its rich details and refreshing findings. -- Ming K. CHAN, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University

Simon Shen is associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and chief coordinator/adjunct associate professor of the Master of Global Political Economy Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Shaun Breslin is professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. When China Plugged In: Structural Origins of Online Chinese Nationalism Chapter 3 2. Nationalism-on-demand? When Chinese Sovereignty Goes Online Part 4 The First Layer: Japan, Taiwan and the USA Chapter 5 3. China's Online Nationalism towards Japan Chapter 6 4.Networking Anti-Japanese Protests: Popular Sovereignty Reasserted since 2005 Chapter 7 5. Alternative Online Chinese Nationalism: Response to the Anti-Japanese Campaign in China on Hong Kong's Internet Chapter 8 6. Ethnocentric Perceptive Re-explored: Online Chinese Nationalism toward Taiwan Chapter 9 7. The "Two Americas" Dichotomy: Online Chinese Nationalism towards the United States of America Part 10 The Second Layer: The Rests of the World Chapter 11 8. Beyond Sino-ASEAN Relations: Online Chinese Nationalism towards Southeast Asia Chapter 12 9. Online Chinese Nationalism toward the European Union: Economic and Diplomatic Implications of the Olympic Torch Relay Protests Chapter 13 10. Online Nationalism and Sino-UK Relations Chapter 14 11. A constructed (un)reality on China's re-entry into Africa: the Chinese online community perception of Africa Chapter 15 12.Discussions on Sino-Latin American Relations at Qiangguo Forums (or the Lack Thereof) Part 16 Conclusion Chapter 17 13. Online Chinese nationalism(s): Comparisons and Findings