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More Than a Category: Han Supremacism on the Chinese Internet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2010

James Leibold
Affiliation:
La Trobe University. Email: j.leibold@latrobe.edu.au

Abstract

Using the October 2008 slapping incident of historian Yan Chongnian 阎崇年 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 汉民族) 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.

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60 See for but one example, Zhao Fengnian, “Tantan wo ruhe congcong Zhonghua zhuyizhe biancheng han minzu zhuyizhe” (“Why I changed from a Chinese nationalist to a Han nationalist”), Hanwang, 20 October 2004, at http://www.hanminzu.com/Article/xhzd/200907/730_7.html.

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62 mcbfaa, “Nanyuanbeizhe de minzu zhengce” (“The cross-purposes of the nationalities policies”), Hanwang, 24 November 2008, at http://www.hanminzu.net/Article/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=20.

63 Wumaodang, “Concerning the ‘Great Wind of Han's’ surprise attack on Yan Chongnian.”

64 Han independent blog, “Zhongguo gongmin dengji ruxia” (“The status of Chinese citizens is like this”), 25 November 2008, at http://indyblog-han.blogspot.com/2008/11/national-treatment-in-china-is-below.html (no longer available).

65 Yueqiu, “Zu renkou qian nian yi hui” (“The destruction of our race's population in a single century”), Hanzu wang, 7 October 2007, at http://www.han5000.com/viewthread.php?tid=5173&extra=page%3D1 (no longer available).

66 Anon, “Qiya shaoshu minzu? Zhongguo shifou you gouda Hanzuzhuyi” (“Riding roughshod over the ethnic minorities? Does China possess Han chauvinism?”), Fenghuangwang, 16 September 2008, at http://culture.ifeng.com/guoxue/200809/0916_4087_785721_1.shtml.

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68 Xuanyuan bingrou, “Guanyu ‘minzu youlie’ wenti” (“Concerning the question of ‘superior and inferior races’”), Hanzu wang, 22 March 2008, at http://www.han5000.com/viewthread.php?tid=11466&sid=HLS5Gz (no longer available).

69 Qingping jushi, “Han minzu jiangde jiu shi xuetong chuancheng” (“The Han race that we talk about is the product of blood inheritance”), Hanwang, 18 December 2008, at http://hanminzu.com/Article/jsdt/200812/114.html.

70 Xuanyuan bingrou, “Concerning the question of ‘superior and inferior races’.”

71 HolySinoEm, “Huang Han minzu shi xuetong xiangdui chuzheng de minzu” (“The imperial Han race is a relatively pure race”), Hanzu wang, 11 July 2007, at http://www.han5000.com/viewthread.php?tid=828&extra=page%3D1 (no longer available).

72 Ibid.

73 Lanshui, “Guanyu minzu youlie de jidian kanfa” (“Several views on the superiority and inferiority of races”), Hanzu wang, 11 December 2008, at http://www.han5000.com/viewthread.php?tid=18057&sid=HLS5Gz (no longer available).

74 Reply by Jiguang yiyue on 8 August 08 to the original posting Qinhuang Hanwu, “Women weishenmo jiao Hanren” (“Why are we called Han people?”), Hanzu wang, 25 June 2006, at http://www.han5000.com/viewthread.php?tid=384&extra=page%3D1 (no longer available).

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