China's Quest for National Identity. (book reviews)

This remarkably coherent symposium should command broad attention throughout our discipline because it illuminates in numerous ways the confusing complexities and uncertain relationships among such supposedly self-evident concepts as state, nation, country, culture, society, and civil society and such basic sentiments as nationalism, patriotism, and a variety of national, social, and political group identities.

With embarrassing regularity, scholars will labor to define these concepts but then, in the pages that follow, slip into treating many as synonyms. The differences are important ...

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