The Reasons For The Resurgence Of Contemporary Chinese Nationalism And Characteristics Analysis

Nationalism is one of the most important issues in modern China since 1840s, which greatly influenced China's political development. Since 1990s, a new nationalism movement has been resurged in China and proved to be one of the most important powers which affect Chinese society. How to judge this new nationalism is a very important question. This essay will analyze China's new nationalism from the view of nationalism movement. In history, nationalism was initially appeared in China following western's intrusion since the first Opium War. Since then nationalism developed very fast and played a key role for China's social changes. The new nationalism in China since 1990s was occurred under the background of post cold war era, which manifested in international level as globalization and world new nationalism tide and in domestic level as ideology crisis and China's rise. These backgrounds mean a lot for us to understand China's new nationalism. The main reasons of the revival of Chinese nationalism could be summarized as: the stimulation of conflicts between China and foreign countries, the inspiration of China's rise, and the impetus of the government and intellectuals.When analyzing the contents of China' new nationalism, we could find:that the main objectives of China's nationalism are China's reunification and China's mighty, which means that nationalism mainly is a supporter to China's state building; that the ordinary people play a central role in nationalism movements and their actions mainly come from plain patriotic emotion, which brings both support and challenge to the government; that internet plays a more and more important role for the development of Chinese nationalism; and that we could not talk nationalism without reference to modernization, in China today, the combine of nationalism with authoritarianism might be the way for China to achieve modernization.China's new nationalism has been developed very fast since its revival in 1990s, it is now one of the most important factors which affect society. This new nationalism is a great supporter for China's development, but it also has some drawbacks and brings many harms.