{"product_id":"overseas-chinese-ethnic-minorities-and-elena-barabantseva-9780415579506","title":"Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-Centering China","description":"\u003cp\u003eElena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China's national project, whose membership criteria have evolved historically. By looking specifically at the ascribed roles of China's ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese in successive state-led modernisation efforts, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers new perspectives on the changing boundaries of the Chinese nation. It places domestic nation-building and transnational identity politics in a single analytical framework, and examines how they interact to frame the national project of the Chinese state. By exploring the processes taking place at the ethnic and territorial margins of the Chinese nation-state, the author provides a new perspective on China's national modernisation project, clarifying the processes occurring across national boundaries and illustrating how China has negotiated the basis for belonging to its national project under the challenge to modernise amid both domestic and global transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, Chinese politics, nationalism, transnationalism and regionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elena Barabantseva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415579503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415579506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 164","brand":"Elena Barabantseva","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064935526655,"sku":"9780415579506","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b12ee32d-0323-4cd2-804c-78dc3f143b6e.jpg?v=1768672030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/overseas-chinese-ethnic-minorities-and-elena-barabantseva-9780415579506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}