Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority

2012
Author(s)
James Leibold
Stephane Gros
Eric Vanden Bussche
Publisher
University of California Press
Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority

Constituting over ninety percent of China's population, Han is not only the largest ethnonational group in that country but also one of the largest categories of human identity in world history. In this pathbreaking volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars examine this ambiguous identity, one that shares features with, but cannot be subsumed under, existing notions of ethnicity, culture, race, nationality, and civilization.