The Great Han

Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today

Kevin Carrico

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University of California Press
22 August 2017

Fashion & society; Social & cultural anthropology; Nationalism

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.

By: Kevin Carrico
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520295490
ISBN 10: 0520295498
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 22 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Eternal Apparel 1 • Imaginary Communities: Fantasy and Failure in Nationalist Identification 2 • Han Trouble and the Ethnic Cure 3 • Th e 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

Kevin Carrico is Lecturer in the Department of International Studies (Modern Languages and Cultures) at Macquarie University and the translator of Tsering Woeser's Tibet on Fire.

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

Engages deeply with ethnography and other academic theories. * Asian Ethnology * This monograph is excellent, refreshing, and thought provoking. I believe that this monograph should be of interest to interlocutors within the fields of Chinese studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography, heritage, and Asian studies more broadly. * Anthropos * The Great Han uncovers uncomfortable truths around the origins, beliefs, and aims of the Han clothing movement. Through the careful interrogation of daily practices, personal histories, imaginaries, dilemmas, and desires of the movement's participants, the book shows the continuous appeal and seductive power of ethnic identity labels. * Pacific Affairs *