China’s National Identity and the Root Causes of China’s Ethnic Tensions

Irgengioro, John

doi:10.1007/s12140-018-9297-2

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“…Zhao [82] notes that Chinese nationalism is rooted in its humiliating history. Chinese nationalism was triggered by suffering series of military confrontations with the West and Japan since the mid-1800s that show a vital feature of xenophobia [45,29]. Overall, the CCP's narrative successfully connects the vaccines to the Western bully, which leads to all Chinese sharing the same identity and goal to defend the same enemy-Western democracies' bullying.…”

Section: Chinese Government-led Vaccine Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

China’s “Weaponized” Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

Zhang

Jamali

2022

East Asia

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Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, there is a presumed notion that China's vaccine diplomacy will make a significant contribution to the international public good and thus uplift Beijing's role as the rule-maker of international order. To scrutinize this, the paper asks if China succeeded in proliferating its weaponized vaccine policy to obtain maximum diplomatic gains and soft power projection to intensify its international image, geopolitical power, and domestic politico legitimacy. The authors argue that despite its vaccine diplomacy demonstrated the robust governance capacity and responsibility to be a great power. Yet, Beijing's geopolitical influence and international image are significantly overrated and not enough to play a more prominent role in the global power fulcrum/equilibrium. On the contrary, China enjoys a leading position on the domestic political front. Its successful portrayal of China's vaccine provision in the global market and remarkable configuration to leverage a deep-rooted nationalism has fundamentally provided China with a powerful rationale to divert its public's attention from Beijing's earlier inadequate handling of the outbreak. The evaluation of the paper reveals that China's vaccine diplomacy's influence in promoting international image and geopolitics is limited but has successfully stabilized its domestic political environment and enhanced its domestic legitimacy.

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Section: Chinese Government-led Vaccine Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

China’s “Weaponized” Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

Zhang

Jamali

2022

East Asia

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“…The evolvement of Chinese national identity and Han ethnic identity may therefore shed light on how to analyse the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse. Irgengioro (2018) argues that Chinese national identity assumes the centrality and superiority of the Han race and the Confucian culture. He also points out that the ethnic tension in China arises in the larger context of rising Han ethnic nationalism where ‘Han’ is conflated with ‘Chinese’, making Han culture the paradigmatic Chinese culture.…”

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The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China

Lan

Navera

2021

Discourse & Society

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Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this study investigates the ideology reflected by the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China, the power dynamics revealed by such discourse and how social media discourse differs from and utilises the government discourse. Four ways to disguise the anti-Muslims, anti-Islam prejudice are investigated: appealing to patriotism to demand cultural assimilation; claiming to defend secularism; framing Islam as incompatible with mainstream culture; appealing to consumer rights to reject halal food. Non-Muslims and assimilated Muslims (especially the elites) are found to have the prerogative to dictate who belong to the ingroup, what dietary restrictions are legitimate and whom to blame when undesirable situations arise, while Muslim non-elites are at the receiving end of such dictates. This study also argues that social media discourse expresses antagonism of higher intensity than the government discourse does, and may misappropriate the official narratives to express the interlocutor’s hatred towards Muslims.

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“…Due to its relative ethnic homogeneity-over 90% of the population are Han Chinese -China does not have ethnic and racial divisions on the scale of North American and European countries. Nevertheless, there is evidence of ethnic segregation (Tan et al 2019;Morales 2019), ethnic tensions (Smith 2002;Roberts 2018;Irgengioro 2018) and ethnic inequality (Wang 2019;Morales 2019;Hannum and Xie 1998;Zang 2012) in China. As discussed in Chaps.…”

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Future Directions for Research on Residential Segregation and Inequality in China

Pryce

2021

The Urban Book Series

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This chapter summarises some of the key findings and themes of the book and considers their implications for future research on inequality and segregation in China. I highlight four priority areas. First, there is a need for more research on the dynamics of residential segregation. I argue that the real story of segregation is revealed in the factors and processes that drive long-term change. Second, I emphasise the need for more research on the spatial foundations of inequality—how inequality leads to the geographical separation of rich and poor and how this segregation mediates and reinforces almost every aspect of inequality. Third, I consider the relational and psychological impacts of inequality and the imperative for them to be included in the calculus of policy planning. Fourth, I consider the implications of the Causal Revolution in research methods and argue that they potentially offer the prospect of achieving a scientific approach to policy development and evaluation. I conclude with some reflections on the implications of our findings for future policy directions in China.

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China’s National Identity and the Root Causes of China’s Ethnic Tensions

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 publications

China’s “Weaponized” Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

China’s “Weaponized” Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China

Future Directions for Research on Residential Segregation and Inequality in China

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