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Zheng Yongnian has provided us with an excellent road map for the extraordinary range of opinions among today’s Chinese intellectuals concerning Chinese nationalism, external threats to China, and China as a threat to others. Chinese intellectuals span a wide spectrum of schools, including liberal, realist, the “old left”(which emphasizes strengthening the Communist Party), the “New Conservatism” or “New Left”(which tends toward anti-Westernization and antiinstitutionalism), and “radical reformist”(which considers it inappropriate to overemphasize Chinese tradition and “Chineseness”). Their philosophies include modern radicalism, neo-authoritarianism, globalism, liberalism, and both “official”(patriotic) nationalism and “popular” nationalism. Zheng’s review of the discussion on nationalism in China goes beyond the views of intellectuals to include the perspectives of the factions within the Chinese Communist …