By Frank Dikotter
This paintings displays at the center matters concerning the nationwide and racial mythologies which were important to state construction in China and Japan during the last century. The individuals reveal how the method of contemporary myth-making and racial id politics has been at paintings within the quarter.
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1-30. 3 See for example the 'Symposium on Ethinicity in Qing China' in Late Imperial China, 11, no. 1 (June 1990). 2 34 Zhang Binglin and the Invention of the Han 'Race' 35 is concerned not so much with how the notion of the 'Chinese nation' is defined as with the political, social and cultural origins of the clusters of meanings the concept has acquired. Weare interested in the process whereby the constituent symbols of this collective identity were reconfigured and how they came to be accepted by people in China as both a subjective identity and a public symbol.
The findings of a tuft of brown hair in 1980 and remains of more than 3,000 'red hairs' of the 'wild man' from Shennongjia were scrutinised. ' Contrasting 'primitiveness' to 'modernity', popular reports about the wild man became rife during the 1980s, such as a daily newspaper's article about a girl abducted by a wild man who later escaped back to 'civilisation' with her two shaggy children; in 1986, the Science Evening Paper even brought to the attention of the public a 'wild boy' coated in hair recently discovered near the Himalaya mountains and kept hidden in a military hospital of Shaanxi province as a living fossil.
In the Manchu government, the Mongols enjoyed better treatment than the Chinese. In fact, there was a separate chapter condemning the Mongols' conquest of China; see 'Menggu xingzui' (The rise and fall of the Mongols), Zhang, Quanii, pp. 21-4,60-3. 2R 2~ Jiang, ZhanJ/ Taiyan, pp. 139-40. , pp. 83-4. 'Ping Man Han zhi jie' (Eliminating the boundary between the Manchus and the Han), Jiang, ZhanJ/ Taiyan, pp. 84-5. 31 Zhang Binglin and the Invention of the Han 'Race' 43 the Han. Considered inept and ignorant, the Manchu government was alleged to continue to kill talented and capable Han people.