"Comparative nation-building in the borderlands between China, Myanmar, and Thailand" - by CWP alum Enze Han
This chapter examines the comparative nation-building processes along the borderland area between China, Myanmar, and Thailand. It first traces the different modes of national identity construction in the three countries, and discusses how the modern conceptions of being Chinese, Burmese, and Thai have developed and transformed. This chapter analyzes a range of nation-building policies that the national governments of the three countries have or have tried to implement in their respective jurisdictions in the borderland area. Specifically, it traces how nation-building policies in each country, through the medium of cross-border ethnic ties, have created implications on the other’s abilities to implement these policies, and the responses they have received from the concerned ethnic minority groups across national borders.
BookThe Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia
Edition 1st Edition First Published 2023 Imprint Routledge Pages13 - eBook ISBN9781003111450
Dr. Enze Han is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration. His research interests include international relations of East Asia, China's relations with Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian politics, and ethnic politics in China. Dr. Han received a Ph.D in Political Science from the George Washington University in the United States in 2010. Afterwards he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University. During 2015-2016, he was a Friends Founders' Circle Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. In 2017, he was a fellow at the East Asia Institute in Seoul, South Korea. During 2021-2022, he was Lee Kong Chian Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia at the National University of Singapore and Stanford University. His research has been supported by the Leverhulme Research Fellowship and British Council/Newton Fund. Prior to HKU, Dr. Han was Senior Lecturer in the International Security of East Asia at SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom.
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