Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Eternal Apparel
1 • Imaginary Communities: Fantasy and Failure in Nationalist Identification
2 • Han Trouble and the Ethnic Cure
3 • Th e Personal Origins of Collective Identity
4 • Reenacting the Land of Rites and Etiquette: Between the Virtual and the Material
5 • The Manchu in the Mirror
6 • Producing Purity
Conclusion: Neotraditionalism in China Today

Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Kevin Carrico is Lecturer in the Department of International Studies (Modern Languages and Cultures) at Macquarie University and the translator of Tsering Woeser's Tibet on Fire.

Reviews

"The Great Han uncovers uncomfortable truths around the origins, beliefs, and aims of the Han clothing movement. Through the careful interrogation of daily practices, personal histories, imaginaries, dilemmas, and desires of the movement’s participants, the book shows the continuous appeal and seductive power of ethnic identity labels."
*Pacific Affairs*

"This monograph is excellent, refreshing, and thought provoking. I believe that this monograph should be of interest to interlocutors within the fields of Chinese studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography, heritage, and Asian studies more broadly."
*Anthropos*

"Engages deeply with ethnography and other academic theories."
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