An all-consuming nationalism

"The emergence in the 1990s of a form of 'nostalgic nationalism' among form er radicals intellectuals...makes it more difficult to tell the story of th e struggle between party and the people in a simple fashion. This nationali sm's arguments seem to confuse the battle for human rights and democracy in China.... Put simply, this new nationalism does not fit into the general c ategories used by Western journalists to approach news about China."