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This article reviews standard and recent interpretations of cultural nationalism. It rejects "invention of tradition" perspectives, and assumptions that it is a surrogate statist movement, concerned with cultural homogeneity, that it is archaising in character, and that it is a transient movement, incompatible with full modernisation. It argues cultural nationalism seeks to "rediscover" an historically‐rooted way of life; its concern is communitarian; that cultural nationalists act primarily as moral and social innovators; and that it is a recurring movement, embedded in the modern world.

'Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism' by A-chin Hsiau is reviewed.

THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES LITERATURE'S ROLE IN FORMING A NATION. IT PONDERS HOW THE IDEA OF ESTABLISHING ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL REGULATIONS GOT TRANSFORMED INTO SOMETHING TANGIBLE LIKE A POLITICAL NATION. IT EXAMINES THE NOVEL, "BALUN-CANAN," WHICH IS A DISCOURSE OF NATIONALISM WHICH IS CONCENTRATED IN THE LANGUAGE AND THE MYTH/RELIGION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.

Reviews standard & recent interpretations of cultural nationalism. "Intervention of tradition" perspectives are rejected, along with assumptions that it is a surrogate statist movement, concerned with cultural homogeneity; archaizing in character; & a transient movement, incompatible with full modernization. It is argued that cultural nationalism seeks to "rediscover" a historically rooted way of life; its concern is communitarian; cultural nationalists act primarily as moral & social innovators; & it is a recurring movement, embedded in the modern world. Adapted from the source document.

Desai, Rhadhika: Introduction : nationalism and their understanding in historical perspective. - S. 397-428 Sarkar, Sumit: Nationalism and poverty : discourses of development and culture nationalisms in historical perspective. - S. 429-445 Hein, Laura: The cultural career of the Japanese economy : developmental and cultural nationalism in historical perspective. - S. 447-465 Wu, Guoguang: From post-imperial to late communist nationalism : historical change in Chinese nationalism from May Fourth to the 1990s. - S. 467-482 Rahnema, Saeed: Radical Islamism and failed developmentalism. - S.483-496 Anagnost, Ann: From "class" to "social strata" : grasping the social totality in reform-era China. S. 497-519 Barker, Joshua: Beyond Bandung : developmental nationalism and (multi)cultural nationalism in Indonesia. - S. 521-540 Moghissi, Haideh: Islamic cultural nationalism and gender politics in Iran. - S. 541-554 Bayeh, Mohammed: Hermeneutics against instrumental reason : national and post-national Islam in the 20th century. - S.555-574 Winichakul, Thongchai: Nationalism and the radical intelligentsia in Thailand. - S. 575-591 Shaikh, Farzana: Exception that prove the rule? From islamisation to shariatisation : cultural transnationalism in Pakistan. - S. 593-609 Spencer, Jonathan: A nationalism without politics? The illiberal consequences of liberal institutions in Sri Lanka - S. 611-629 Bunton, Martin: From developmental nationalism to the end of nation-state in Iraq? - S. 631-646 Desai, Radhika: Conclusion : from developmental to cultural nationalism. - S. 647-670

Amid announcements of the eclipse of nation-states under 'globalization', this volume takes a fresh look at the fate of nations and nationalisms in our times. It focuses on changes in the nature of nationalisms in selected cases of Asia under the impact of the inegalitarian political economy of neoliberalism since the 1970s