TY - BOOK ID - 101218430 TI - The Great Han : Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today PY - 2017 SN - 0520967682 0520295498 0520295501 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Costume KW - Nationalism KW - Racism KW - Race KW - Ethnicity KW - Politics and culture KW - Culture KW - Culture and politics KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Physical anthropology KW - Bias, Racial KW - Race bias KW - Race prejudice KW - Racial bias KW - Prejudices KW - Anti-racism KW - Critical race theory KW - Race relations KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Fancy dress KW - Motion pictures KW - Opera KW - Stage costume KW - Theater KW - Theatrical costume KW - Decorative arts KW - Clothing and dress KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - 2000s. KW - 2001. KW - activism. KW - anti foreign. KW - chinese politics. KW - cities. KW - confucian ritual. KW - digital space. KW - digital world. KW - ethics. KW - ethnic dress. KW - ethnographic study. KW - ethnographic. KW - ethnography. KW - foreign sentiment. KW - han clothing movement. KW - nationalism. KW - neotraditionalist. KW - online. KW - political activism. KW - political movement. KW - racial nationalist. KW - social movements. KW - social science. KW - social studies. KW - urban. KW - utopian. KW - xenophobic. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101218430 AB - 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. ER -