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âClassâ, âRaceâ and Language: imagining China and the discourse on the category âHanâ in the writing of Marxist revolutionary Qu Qiubai (1899-1935)
This study investigates the discursive peregrinations of the âHanâ category in the writings of the Chinese revolutionary, theoretician and activist Qu Qiubai. In the papers he wrote at the beginning of the 1930s dealing with the questions of language and writing, the author made singular use of the concept âHanâ to talk about the language/writing of the âHanâ (Hanzi, Hanyu) as a racial or ethnic group (Hanzu). Qu elaborated a discourse which articulated and mobilized, sometimes in a contradictory manner, the âHanâ category both as a âraceâ and as a social class. Going beyond the race/class dialectic, I will try to show that these texts question the territorial, cultural and ethnic boundaries of âChinaâ and its homogeneity. Following this argument, this paper demonstrates how Qu's attempt to define âChinese language(s)â helps us to elucidate the complex articulation between China as a discursive and spatial category, the âHanâ category, and the other nationalities in the Chinese space. By questioning the homogeneity of the linguistic identity of China, using the word zhongguohua, Qu Qiubai unveiled an unstable and fragile imaginary relative to China and its so-called majority ethnic group, the Han.View full textDownload full textKeywordsChina, Han, national language, identity, Qu QiubaiRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2010.510873
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