Andre’s Reviews > The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today > Status Update

And I am done. And the last chapter was on cases were new buildings were built in old style.

Wow, this one guy here actually claims that the Tibet-China issue is a result of western imperialism and orientalism. What crap.

Oh god, this crap again. Is the author actually suggesting that in "traditional chinese sexual culture" homosexuals were allowed to found a family? Because, I can guarantuee, you, a homosexual couple could not actually live openly, not if both were adult men, women were rarely even mentioned, so no way. This other movement is thereby totally in line.

A confucian acadamy where a leader emplays anti-semitic stereotypes, however, it sounds more as if he admires "the Jews" rather than hating them.

Yeah yeah, they are "ignoring the very real complexity of the history of secuality in China." That author apparently fell for that "tolerance" nonsense. This "Prince" character here, would be by no means be more accepted in the imperial days then today. In fact, him being performer (dancer) would mean he belongs to the lowest of the low. High class men weren't supposed to act feminine in any way.

These five core characteristics of this (male lead) ladie's acadamy to which every woman must adher sound a lot like stereotypical chinese woman image. Aka, that stereotype comes from china itself, since I doubt such a hypernationalistic institution like this would adopt something like that from the outside.

All this racist talk and how there is a difference between kids sired by chinese men and those by foreign men, sounds very familiar.I wonder whether this notion that somehow male DNA is stronger than female one and so pure Han are always produced by men, is even found among western progressives.

After all these examples of crazy Manchu conspiracy theories (which are often very similar to those about Freemasons and Jews etc) I did not expect a critique of postcolonialism and antiorientalism. The main point so far is that it enforces the very same East-West binary that it claims to oppose.

Holy shit, what he describes as a modern chinese wedding really does sound pretty horrible. That can't be something everyone participating is comfortable with.
And these Han clothers and their reactions to the magua and gipao and not to mention their crazy Manchu conspiracies.

Ok, most of these very kind of boring and depressing but at least I found someone who actually calls himself Jian and now I think I know where the alleged 8000 years of history come from. I suppose that it has to do with claiming to have history started with the goddess Nüwa.