Peter Hays Gries, China’s New Nationalism. Pride, Politics and Diplomacy

Abstract

“This only is denied to God : the power to change the past”Agathon “Though God cannot alter the past, historians can”Samuel Butler I read China’s New Nationalism in one sitting having re-read Iris Chang’s Rape of Nanking (Penguin, 1997) the day before. Although a coincidence, my timing was fortunate. Peter Hays Gries’s superb survey of Chinese nationalism is an indispensable complement to the (not always fairly) criticised Chang. Gries’s discussion of Rape of Nanking helps readers to put th...