{"id":628,"date":"2020-10-20T09:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2020-10-24T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T10:13:14","slug":"the-invention-of-the-han-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"The invention of the &#8216;Han race&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>9 November 2020 It is a commonplace to talk about the \u2018Han race\u2019 as if it is self-evident fact. In this talk I will explain how the idea of a Han Race was constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century as a political strategy to support the arguments of revolutionary Chinese nationalism. I will show how the &#8216;Han Race\u2019 idea was created as a rival to \u2018Yellow Race\u2019 ideas common among political reformers. I will then trace the origins of this racial thinking to translations of Social Darwinist ideas from Britain by, in particular, the writer Yan Fu. Arguments about the exact definition of the Han race in the 1900s reveal how it was constructed for political expediency. Register here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/china-institute\/events\/seminars\/09nov2020-the-invention-of-the-han-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/china-institute\/events\/seminars\/09nov2020-the-invention-of-the-han-race.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed.png 512w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 November 2020 It is a commonplace to talk about the \u2018Han race\u2019 as if it is self-evident fact. In this talk I will explain how the idea of a Han Race was constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century as a political strategy to support the arguments of revolutionary Chinese nationalism. I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629,"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\/unnamed.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-a8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"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=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}