Can Tao

- Name
- Can Tao
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- can.tao@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Everyday nationalism, banal nationalism, National Identity, China, Patriotic education, Ethnography
- URL
- http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/people/research_students2/can_tao
I argue that the study of nation-building and nationalism should associate top-down forces with bottom-up interpretations and practices. I propose the conception of ‘learning the nation’ as a lens to discover the dynamic interactions between nation-state and individuals, as well as elites and ordinary people.
My research will mainly explore two questions:
1 How do students ‘learn the nation’ through their everyday interactions with other people within and outside schools?
2 How do individuals engage with the state-led patriotic education campaign?