Chinese Nation-Building as, instead of and before Globalization

In this era of "globalization", nation building has been a relatively
neglected topic by anthropologists.  In this essay, I use Thomas
Erikesen's textbook, Globalization, as a framework for exploring
nation-building in China.  I take his eight-concept chapter
outline — disembedding, acceleration, standardization,
interconnectedness, movement, mixing, vulnerability, and
re-embedding — and apply it to dynamics of nation-building in China.  In
so doing, I tease out actual and potential relationships among the
processes evident in Chinese nation-building and globalization.  In
addition, I explore some of the relationships, productivities and
pitfalls of "globalization" and "nation-building" as concepts.