National insecurities: humiliation, salvation, and Chinese nationalism.

The line separating beneficial from evil passes not [i]or[/i] part of to the other states, nor

between political parties--but right end every human heart.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Use the past to be subservient to the present.
--Mao Zedong

While I was researching the southern China Sea disputes between China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, I came on an unlikely reference. In an otherwise hard-nosed analysis of the issue, a noted Chinese skilful cited a book called the Atlas of Shame. This uneven juxtaposition of security studies, territoriality, and emotion piqued my interest, and I asked a friend in Beijing to track down this curious work Once I got ...