The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today

279 Pages·2017·3.624 MB·English

by  Kevin Joseph Carrico

Th e Great Han
race, nationalism, and tradition
in china today
Kevin Carrico
university of california press
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race, nationalism, and tradition
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Kevin Carrico
university of california press
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Names: Carrico, Kevin, author.
Title: Th e great Han : race, nationalism, and tradition in China
today / Kevin Carrico.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
| Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: lccn 2017010809 (print) | lccn 2017013220 (ebook)
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Subjects: lcsh: Costume—China—History—21st century.
| Nationalism—China—History—21st century. | Racism—China—
History—21st century. | Race—History—21st century. | Ethnicity—
China—History—21st century. | Politics and culture—China—
21st century.
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contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Eternal Apparel 1
1 Imaginary Communities: Fantasy and Failure in
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Nationalist Identifi cation 16
2 Han Trouble and the Ethnic Cure 34
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3 Th e Personal Origins of Collective Identity 69
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4 Reenacting the Land of Rites and Etiquette: Between the
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Virtual and the Material 96
5 Th e Manchu in the Mirror 131
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6 Producing Purity 159
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Conclusion: Neotraditionalism in China Today 191
Notes 219
Character Glossary 241
Bibliography 247
Index 259
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illustrations
1. Sign in a Guangzhou underpass reads “vitality, happiness,
harmony, and advancing forward” 28
2. Enthusiasts wearing Han Clothing in Beijing 36
3. Image of China’s fi ft y-six nationalities 42
4. Th e Han within the national family (close-up of fi gure 3) 43
5. A propaganda poster advocating “solidarity” refl ects conventional
majority and minority representations via clothing and skin color,
Haikou 47
6. Ethnic clothing for rent, Splendid China, Shenzhen 49
7. Demolition surrealism in Tsin Village, Guangzhou 83
8. Enthusiasts wearing Han Clothing, Zhengzhou 97
9. Photo-bombing Han Clothing enthusiasts, Lunar New Year Flower
Market, Guangzhou 104
10. Th e people of Panyu staring at Han Clothing enthusiasts 107
11. Th e people of Panyu staring at Han Clothing enthusiasts 108
12. Coming of age ceremony, Shenzhen 109
13. Enthusiasts posing for photographs, Baiyun Mountain,
Guangzhou 123
14. Han Clothing enthusiasts commemorate the 99th anniversary
of the anti-Manchu revolution at Guangzhou’s Tomb of the
72 Martyrs 137
15. Gendered enactments of Han-ness, Guangzhou 161
16. Gendered enactments of Han-ness, Guangzhou 162
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