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The Great Han

Name: The Great Han
ISBN: 9780520967687

Kevin Carrico,

280 pages
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The Great Han

Kevin Carrico,

About this book

The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement, a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic "Great Han" and corresponding "real China" through pseudotraditional ethnic dress, reinvented Confucian ritual, and anti-foreign sentiment. Analyzing the movement's ideas and practices, this book argues that the vision of a pure, perfectly ordered, ethnically homogeneous, and secure society is in fact a fantasy constructed in response to the challenging realities of the present. Yet this national imaginary is reproduced precisely through its own perpetual elusiveness. The Great Han is a pioneering analysis of Han identity, nationalism, and social movements in a rapidly changing China.

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Information

Publisher

University of California Press

Year

2017

Print ISBN

9780520295506

eBook ISBN

9780520967687

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Anthropology

Index

Social Sciences

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•

43

han

trouble: 

reconsidering 

ethnic 

relations

Early 

in

my

ﬁeldwork, 

a

group 

of

friends 

in

Guangzhou 

shared 

a

PowerPoint 

presentation 

detailing 

the

lengthy 

history 

of

Han

Clothing 

and

the

recent 

rise 

of

the

Han

Clothing 

Movement. 

One

of

the

ﬁrst 

images 

in

the

presenta-

tion 

featured 

members 

of

the

oﬃ

cial 

ﬁ

ﬅ

y-six 

nationalities 

of

China, 

ﬁttingly 

posing 

in

the

shape 

of

the

numeral 

“56.” 

Each 

ﬁgure 

in

the

image 

is

conveni-

ently 

marked 

by

a

distinct 

form 

of

ethnic 

clothing, 

one

of

the

primary 

media 

through 

which 

identity 

is

represented 

in

China 

today.

19

is 

panorama 

of

distinct 

outﬁts, 

shaping 

the

“magic 

number” 

of

ethnicity,

20

56,

is

furthermore 

figure 

4.

e 

Han

within 

the

national 

family 

(close-up 

of

ﬁgure 

3).

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Eternal Apparel
1 Imaginary Communities: Fantasy and Failure in Nationalist Identification
2 Han Trouble and the Ethnic Cure
3 The Personal Origins of Collective Identity
4 Reenacting the Land of Rites and Etiquette: Between the Virtual and the Material
5 The Manchu in the Mirror
6 Producing Purity
Conclusion: Neotraditionalism in China Today
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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