This is an innovative, thought-provoking, and important contribution to our understanding of contemporary Chinese society. -- James Leibold, coeditor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority At a time when minority identities and conflicts between minorities and the state have become increasingly salient for our understanding of China and its politics, we need to pay more attention to the question of what Han identity means for the Han themselves and how conflict between Han and minorities is explained by the nature of Han identity. The Han makes an important contribution to this understanding. -- From the foreword by Stevan Harrell, author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Foreword by Stevan Harrell
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Narrating “the Han”
2. Contemporary Narratives of Han-ness
3. Topographies of Identity
4. Othering, Exclusion, and Discrimination
5. Fragmented Identities, the Han Minzu, and Ethnicity
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
References
Index
Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi is a postdoctoral researcher of social and cultural anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and a Crossroads Asia Research Fellow.
"Contemporary anthropological research infrequently focuses on the
Han, who constitute 91.5 percent of the Chinese population. Social
anthropologist Joniak-Lüthi takes a big step “to explore the Han
and Han-ness”… An ambitious work, similar to defining America and
Americanism. Recommended."
*Choice*
"This should be a must-read for anyone interested in historical and
contemporary notions of identity in China."
*New Books Network*
"I am constantly intrigued by what it means to be Han. . . .
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi's remarkable new book casts light on this
question, and reveals Hanness as a slippery and multivalent
designation. . . . The fieldwork undertaken by the author for this
study, and the deep analysis to which she has subjected it, has
produced a wonderful contribution to scholarship on the Han, but I
believe it illumines also the ways in which we all see
ourselves."
*New Books Asia*
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