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Publication Date: 2024
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The Wheel of History and Minorities' 'Self-Sacrifice' for the Chinese Nation
Comparative Education, v60 n1 p96-117 2024
This article offers a theoretical intervention in new and emergent approaches to analysing China's coercive nation-building policies under Xi Jinping. The author contends that the recent Western framing of CCP policies as genocidal or necropolitical, predicated on notions of settler colonialism and indigeneity, not only strips minority nationalities of their political agency but also prevents them from pursuing anti-colonial self-determination. By delving into the extensive scholarly work within Chinese anthropology, history, and philosophy that contributes to the reconstruction of a retrotopian Chinese nation with non-Han minority groups at its core, this article argues that the ongoing effort to build a revitalised Chinese national community requires more than merely overcoming obstacles related to minority cultures and identities. It entails actively reimagining the role and participation of minorities in 'self-sacrifice' for the Chinese national community, implying their voluntary relinquishment of identities and rights in order to align with the Chinese nation.
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Nationalism, Public Policy, History, Philosophy, Asian Culture, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Politics
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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