Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Great Han Race Nationalism And Tradition In China Today
Author(s): Carrico Kevin
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520295506
Pages: 280 Pages, 19 B-W
Publication Date: 8/22/2017
Category: Nationalism