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The great Han : race, nationalism, and tradition in China today

Carrico, Kevin, author

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\"The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing movement (Hanfu yundong), a neo-traditionalist and majority 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 pseudo-traditional ethnic dress, reinvented Confucian ritual, and anti-foreign sentiment. Employing close analysis of movement ideas and practices, this book finds that the movement's \"real China,\" envisioning a pure, perfectly ordered, ethnically homogeneous, and secure society, is in fact an imaginary vision 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.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9780520295490, 9780520295506, 9780520967687

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GT1555.C37 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE