POLS 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Transnationalism, Primordialism, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1500
• Professor: Andrea Paras

Document Summary

Post-mao nation-building: since the start of the economic reforms and opening-up of china to the rest of the world in 1978, economic development has overwhelmingly been presented in. Chinese official discourse as a solution to china"s national problems, an all- encompassing answer to the problems of regional and social inequality, ethnic cohesion, cultural development and potential ethnic strife. In recent years scholars have observed a growing re-sinicization" of overseas. Chinese communities worldwide, which is attributed to the active role of the. Chinese state in promoting its presence among overseas chinese. Colourful" society: contemporary official formulation of the chinese nation echo the interpretations put forward by the nationalist government in the early 20th century and the maoist government in the mid-20th century. In his study of the origins of nations, anthony smith refers to the ethnie as a human organization which characterizes much of the world even today.