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

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

Social Science > Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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  • University of California Press
  • Paperback
  • 9780520295506
  • 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches
  • 0.85 pounds
  • Social Science > Anthropology - Cultural & Social
  • (Single Author) Asian American
  • English
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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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Author Bio

Kevin Carrico is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Monash University and currently an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow. Kevin is a sociocultural anthropologist who researches nationalism, ethnic relations, and political culture in China, Tibet, and Hong Kong.

He is the author of The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today (University of California Press, 2017) and the translator of Tsering Woeser's Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations against Chinese Rule (Verso Press, 2016). He is currently completing a manuscript on China-Hong Kong relations and the emergence of a Hong Kong independence movement.

Kevin's articles have been published in the China Journal, Nations and Nationalism, Hong Kong Studies, and Asian Cinema. Outside of academia, Kevin's writings have been featured in Foreign Policy, the Age, Hong Kong Free Press, Taipei Times, Voice of Tibet, China Brief, and Anthropology News.

His research has also been featured very prominently in the Beijing-owned Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po.

Kevin is accepting PhD students with compatible research interests.

 

  • Research interests
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  • Nationalism, racism, and ethnic tensions in China
  • Constructions of tradition in China
  • Hong Kong political culture and independence activism
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Psychoanalytical anthropology
  • Luhmann and social systems theory
  • Anthropology of anthropology
  • Spheres theory

 

Education 

  • Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, Cornell University
     
  • Kevin Carrico received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and wrote a dissertation on 
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  • "The Imaginary Institution of China: Dialectics of Fantasy and Failure in the Nationalist Experience." 
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  • Dr. Carrico taught Contemporary Chinese Society Through Independent Documentary Film in spring 2014

 

 

Source: Monash University, Center for East Asian Studies - Stanford University 

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