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Contents

INTRODUCTION

BANGLADESH - SERGIO TARGA

• From India to Pakistan to Bangladesh
• A Troubled Birth Requiring Three Partitions
• Bangladesh Today. Fifty Years of Indipendence
• Bengali or Bangladeshi: Nationalism Contested
• The Nation State Heir to the Colonial Regime of Power
• Religious and Secular Nationalism
• South Asia and Bangladesh in Perspective
• Conclusion

 INDONESIA - VALENTIN SHUKURU

• The Genesis of Indonesian Nationalism
• The Challenges of Articulating Indonesian Nationalism
• Contemporary Indonesian Nationalism
• The Position of the Catholic Church
• Conclusion 

JAPAN - TIZIANO TOSOLINI

• Political Nationalism
• Cultural Nationalism
• Religious Nationalism
• Neonationalism and the Church
• Conclusion

 PHILIPPINES - MATTEO REBECCHI

• The Rise of the Concept of Being Filipinos
• A Community Broader than the Kin and the Definition of Territorial Boundaries
• A Faith Embraced and Expressed in a Filipino Way
• Education: The Illusive Freedom and the American Subjugation
• The Miracle of the EDSA Revolution
• From EDSA to the Current Populism
• Ethics Within the Kin and the Rule of the Oligarchs
• An Identity under Question

TAIWAN - FABRIZIO TOSOLINI

• Lessons from Taiwan. A History of Aggression and Invesion Resistance Nationalism
• Setting the Initial Stage: Tue Duch Presence (1624-1662)
• Under Chinese Rule 1. The Kingdom of Dong Ning (1661-1683)
• Under Chinese Rule II. The Qing (1683-1895)
• The Taiwan Republic and Japanese Rule (1895-1945)
• Still/Again a Colony? 1945-1987
• 1987-2021. Setting the Present-Day Stage
• For the Next Invasion

CONCLUSION