Abstract
Although in China itself discussion about nationalism has been limited to the small world of intellectuals in academic circles, "Chinese nationalism" has long been a hot topic among Western academic and media circles. It has been the subject of many articles and treatises, and the term has appeared in virtually all works analyzing Chinese politics and foreign relations.1 This is understandable on at least two levels. First, although economic growth is the unanimous and overwhelming concern of the Chinese people, nationalism2 does occupy a certain place in secondary thinking. Second, if we merely say that it has a certain place in Chinese thinking, then the issue would be a nonissue, because nationalism has a place in the thinking in every part of the world today. The fact is that Chinese nationalism embodies certain subtle changes that have taken place in major areas of the Chinese political psyche from the 1980s to the 1990s. This is especially significant in view of the fact that China, in the 1980s, was abnormally nonnationalistic.
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