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Title: Northeast Asia History Foundation Translation Series 11 (Huaxia Border in China and the Chinese Nation)
152×225mm | 577 pages | Price 20,000 won /Published on 14th May, 2008
ISBN 978-89-6187-057-3-93910

Without any doubt, the Chinese are the most populous nation in the world. Besides 1.2 billion Chinese on the continent, there are tens of millions of Chinese people recognized by themselves or others as such all over the world. However, what is the Chinese nation? This question worries many foreign scholars studying China, even ‘the Chinese people’, and is more complicated for the Chinese living on the border. Research on the essence of the Chinese nation can be approached from many directions. But contemporary studies on the essence of the Chinese nation and society or on the search for the origin of ancient customs tend to focus on ‘ethnicity’ such as physical features, language, folk culture, lifestyle etc. This book is answering the question, “What is the Chinese nation?” from a perspective focusing on the formation and change of ‘border nation’. The origin, formation and expansion of Huaxia nation (ancient Chinese) was interpreted from the point of view of the creation and expansion of the ‘border’ of China and interaction between events and people on the ‘border’, and also this book shows how this nation changed to the contemporary Chinese, along with minorities, through ‘re-composition of Huaxia nation’s border’. This book discusses new approaches in understanding the origin and formation of the Chinese nation and also the methodology used in obtaining this. We hope this book helps to guide an in-depth understanding of the question, ‘What is the Chinese nation?’

■ Contents
Introduction: What is the Chinese nation?
Part 1 Border and Inner Core
Part 2 The formation of ecology on Huaxia border
Part 3 The formation and expansion of Huaxia nation border
Part 4 The continuity and change of Huaxia border
Conclusion: Competition for resources, historical memory and ethnic identity.