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The end of the Cold War has seen the revival throughout the world of nationalist sentiments and aspirations.

In China, the rapid decay of communist ideology had led the CPC to emphasize its role as the paramount patriotic force and the guardian of the national pride in order to find a new basis to sustain its role.

However, nationalist sentiment is not the sole province of the CPC.

One truly remarkable phenomenon in the post-Cold War upsurge of Chinese nationalism is that Chinese intellectuals became one of the driving forces.

Many well-educated people-social scientists, humanities scholars, writers and other professionals-have given voice to and even become articulators for rising nationalistic discourse in the 1990s.

Some commentators have proposed that " positive nationalism " could be an important unifying factor for the country as it has been for other countries.