Nationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks. And as we have increasingly seen, nationalism in digital spheres interacts in complicated ways with nationalism "on the ground". Using two cases, the infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937 and the recent disputes between China and Japan over islands in the East China Sea, this book shows how various stakeholders in China construct networks and deploy power to shape nationalism for their own ends.

• List of Tables and Illustrations


• Note on Conventions


• Acknowledgements


• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Nationalism and its Digital Modes


• Chapter 3: Filtering Digital China


• Chapter 4: Digital China's Hyperlink Networks


• Chapter 5: The Mediated Massacre


• Chapter 6: Selling Sovereignty on the Web


• Chapter 7: The User-Generated Nation


• Chapter 8: The Cultural Governance of Digital China


• Chapter 9: Conclusion - The Future of Nationalism in the Digital Age


• Glossary of Technical Terms


• Notes


• References


• Index

Florian Schneider is University Lecturer for the Politics of Modern China at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is also managing editor of the journal Asiascape: Digital Asia, and the author of Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series (Brill 2013). His research interests include questions of governance, political communication, digital media, and international relations in the East-Asian region.