The Chinese national character : from nationhood to individuality / Lung-Kee Sun.

"An East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-277) and index.

1. The Birth of a "Nation" The End of an Autocosm. Racial Thinking as a New Episteme. Japan as the "Racial" Model. The Yellow-White Condominium. Liang Qichao's Transition to "Nationalism" Nation in the Age of Imperialism. Nationhood Defined as an Absence. Decentering Confucius. Retrieving the Han Identity. The Yellow Emperor as the Font of "National" History. The Making of an Estranged Genealogy -- 2. National Psychology. Europe's Seminal Experience. The Advent of Social Psychology. Historical Race versus Natural Race. The Enigma of "National Psychology" National Spirit and National Soul. National Psychology and National Education. National Psychology and National Revolution. Will There Be a Nation After the Revolution? Is the Republic Lacking in Character? Yuan Shikai's Corruption of the Chinese Psychology. The Heyday of National Psychology, and Its Decline -- 3. Orientalness and Degeneration. Confucianism and the National Psychology. The Problem of "Eastern Civilization".

Evolution's Shadow: Degeneration. Early Chinese Understanding of Heredity. Heredity Against Instinct. Civilization Against Nature. The Specter of Racial Degeneration. The Beginning of Chinese Eugenic Thinking. Eugenics and the Cult of Genius. Civilization as Syphilisation -- 4. Superman and Underman. China's First Proto-Modernist. The Madman as Visionary. The Doppelganger's Monodrama. The Empathetic Misanthrope. The Chinese Herd. A Chinese Demonology. The Chinese as Sexual Degenerates. The Epigones -- 5. North and South. Heredity and Environment. The Regional Strategy of Anti-Manchuism. The North and the South as Belligerents. The North-South Cultural Animus. Geography, Temperament, and Race. The North Temperate Zone Theory. Adverse Environment, Bad Heredity, and the "Chosen People" The Fad of Anthropogeography. Zhang Junjun's Racial Reform Program. Lin Yutang's Pseudo-Regionality. The Persistence of Regional Typologies. Multiple Chinas. A Versatile Schematic --

6. "The Rock from a Distant Hill" A Foretaste of Multiculturalism. Personality as the Metonym of Culture. Chinese Childhood and Sexual Growth. The Chinese Reversal of Gender Roles. The "Castrating Mother" Fear of Passivity and "Depletion" The Impaired Ability for Aggression. Individuation as Parenticidal Drama. The Morbidity of Domineering and Clinging. The Trope of the Mental Ward. The Silence of the Moth. Chinese as Marginal Text. Epilogue: Toward a Postnational Age?