Materialising the nation : an exploratory study of post-independence Singapore, reformist China, and post-WWII Japan

• Main Author: Chong, Joel Zhi Quan
• Other Authors: Kei Koga
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72129
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper argues that new understandings of the nation have leveraged the growing desire for economic and material development, resulting in a new, post-modern understanding of nationalism – material nationalism. Material nationalism occurs when the nation is envisioned and built on its material an...