| ID | 100497 |
| Title Proper | More than a category |
| Other Title Information | Han supremacism on the Chinese internet |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Leibold, James |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Using the October 2008 slapping incident of historian Yan Chongnian ??? as a case study, this article attempts to contextualize and critically examine the articulation of Han supremacism on the Chinese internet. It demonstrates how an informal group of non-elite, urban youth are mobilizing the ancient Han ethnonym to challenge the Chinese Communist Party's official policy of multiculturalism, while seeking to promote pride and self-identification with the Han race (han minzu ???) to the exclusion of the non-Han minorities. In contrast to most of the Anglophone literature on Chinese nationalism, this article seeks to employ "Han" as a "boundary-spanner," a category that turns our analysis of Chinese national identity formation on its head, side-stepping the "usual suspects" (intellectuals, dissidents and the state itself) and the prominent role of the "foreign other" in Chinese ethnogenesis, and instead probing the unstable plurality of the self/othering process in modern China and the role of the internet in opening up new spaces for non-mainstream identity articulation. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Quarterly Vol. 2010, No. 203; Sep 2010: p.539-559 |
| Journal Source | China Quarterly Vol. 2010, No. 203; Sep 2010: p.539-559 |
| Key Words | Yan Chongnian ; Han Supremacism ; Chinese Internet ; Chinese Communist Party ; Multiculturalism ; China ; Chinese Nationalism |