Article: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR China's nationalism

International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
05-13-2008
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR China's nationalism
Byline: International Herald Tribune
Edition: 1
Section: OPINION

David Shambaugh ("China's competing nationalisms," Views, May 6) traces the rise of Chinese hypernationalism to the humiliations inflicted on China by foreigners.

This narrative, which is favored by the Communist Party, masks the awkward fact that most of the "humiliation" in the lives of ordinary Chinese people during the past 150 years was experienced at the hands of other Chinese: Tens of ...

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