Nation and Ethnicity

Julia C. Schneider, Ph.D. (2013), Ghent University and University of Göttingen, is an Akademische Rätin (assistant professor), at the University of Göttingen. She has published articles and chapters on Chinese nationalism and the Jurchen Jin Dynasty.

"Julia C. Schneider’s Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discussions on History, Historiography, and Nationalism is a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on Chinese nationalism and nationalist historiography at a time when the domestic ethnic issue has loomed large as a potential catalyst for political instability in the People’s Republic of China, and the “nationality policies” implemented since the 1950s have been contested... Overall, Schneider’s book is a very compelling study that delves deep into source materials and makes valid critical argument about the racialist/orientalist bent of early 20th century Chinese thinkers and historians when representing Chinese history and positioning non-Han peoples in it."-Guo Wu, Allegheny College, Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, 66:1.

• ContentsAcknowledgements viiList of Maps and Tables IXAbbreviations XNotes XIIntroduction 1Part 1Imperial Times1 Liang Qichao: Nationalism and Historiography 672 Zhang Taiyan: The Republic of China as an Image 1433 Liu Shipei: The Expulsion of the Non-Chinese from China’s History 211Part 2The Republican Era4 Non-Chinese People in Periodisations and Assimilationist Theories 2835 The Genre of General Histories in the 1920s 330Conclusion 381Bibliography 399Glossary 441Index 474