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The Han: China's Diverse Majority by Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (review)

The Han: China's Diverse Majority by Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (review) 40 China Review International: Vol. 22, No. 1, 2015 Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi. Foreword by Stevan Harrell. The Han: China’s Diverse Majority. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xiii, 187 pp. Hardcover $50.00, isbn 978-0-295-99467-3. In contemporary China, the Han as a social category has assumed a life of its own. Villagers whom I encountered in multiethnic regions coined the phrase duoshu minzu to juxtapose the Han majority vis-à-vis the official term shaoshu minzu (minority nationalities). On occasion, the Han were directly referred to as an equivalent to the state (guojia w ) hen government officials visited these minority villages. As Han-ness has been inscribed with so many layers of meaning, how much do we really know about the Han as a majority? How is the Han category an ethnic one, if at all? How do perceptions of the Han relate to the Chinese nation- state? And what do Han individuals think about themselves? Fully attending to the sociohistorical contingency that is at stake with these questions, Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi oer ff s promising answers in this concisely written book. Not only does it speak to critical studies on Chinese ethnicities, which should not be discussed separately in terms of respective minority http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

The Han: China's Diverse Majority by Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (review)

Luo, Yu
China Review International , Volume 22 (1) – Apr 14, 2017
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40 China Review International: Vol. 22, No. 1, 2015 Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi. Foreword by Stevan Harrell. The Han: China’s Diverse Majority. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xiii, 187 pp. Hardcover $50.00, isbn 978-0-295-99467-3. In contemporary China, the Han as a social category has assumed a life of its own. Villagers whom I encountered in multiethnic regions coined the phrase duoshu minzu to juxtapose the Han majority vis-à-vis the official term shaoshu minzu (minority nationalities). On occasion, the Han were directly referred to as an equivalent to the state (guojia w ) hen government officials visited these minority villages. As Han-ness has been inscribed with so many layers of meaning, how much do we really know about the Han as a majority? How is the Han category an ethnic one, if at all? How do perceptions of the Han relate to the Chinese nation- state? And what do Han individuals think about themselves? Fully attending to the sociohistorical contingency that is at stake with these questions, Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi oer ff s promising answers in this concisely written book. Not only does it speak to critical studies on Chinese ethnicities, which should not be discussed separately in terms of respective minority

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