{"id":602,"date":"2020-10-13T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T08:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2020-10-13T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:18:19","slug":"the-invention-of-the-chinese-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The invention of the Chinese nation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing-800x420.png 800w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing-762x400.png 762w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An online talk for the Contemporary China Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington. How many nations are there in China? Is there just one or are there many? What does the Chinese word for nation &#8211; \u2018minzu\u2019 actually mean? In this talk, I will trace the origins of the contemporary problems in Tibet and Xinjiang to debates among exiled Chinese reformers and revolutionaries in the early twentieth century about how to translate European ideas of \u2018race\u2019, \u2019nation\u2019, \u2018people\u2019 and \u2018citizen\u2019 into Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgtn.ac.nz\/chinaresearchcentre\/programmes-and-projects\/seminars\/2020\/the-invention-of-the-chinese-nation\">https:\/\/www.wgtn.ac.nz\/chinaresearchcentre\/programmes-and-projects\/seminars\/2020\/the-invention-of-the-chinese-nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online talk for the Contemporary China Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington. How many nations are there in China? Is there just one or are there many? What does the Chinese word for nation &#8211; \u2018minzu\u2019 actually mean? In this talk, I will trace the origins of the contemporary problems in Tibet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vuw-social-media-sharing.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-9I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}