The Making of the Republican Citizen Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China 1911-1929

by Harrison, Henrietta

• ISBN13: 9780198295198
• ISBN10: 0198295197
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-11
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

What does it mean to be Chinese? How did the major political events of the early 20th century affect the everyday lives of ordinary people in China? This book uses a wealth of new sources, including newspapers, memoirs, interviews, and photographs, to look at the political history of theperiod and to understand the ways in which politics intersected with the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. To be a modern citizen of the Chinese republic meant repudiating much of the very ritual that had previously defined one as Chinese. As we follow the changes in everyday life, rangingfrom the unbinding of women's feet to the commemoration of the events of the a new republican history, we see the complex interactions between an ever more activist state and its new citizens.

Author Biography

Henrietta Harrison is Fulford Junior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(1)
Ethnicity and Nationalism	1	(1)
Rituals and Ceremonies	2	(2)
Cultural History	4	(3)
Nationalism before the Republic	7	(3)
Revolution	10	(4)
Moving the Revolution beyond Politics: the 1911 Revolution and the Common Man	14	(35)
An Elite Affair?	16	(4)
Symbols of the Republic	20	(4)
Inverting Ethnicity	24	(2)
Participation	26	(4)
Queue Cutting	30	(11)
Invoking the Ming	41	(8)
The Republican Citizen	49	(44)
A Fashion for Republicanism	49	(11)
Republican Citizens	60	(11)
Gender and Citizenship	71	(12)
Nationalism and the Transformation of Ethnicity	83	(10)
The Republican State and the National Community	93	(40)
National Day	93	(5)
Symbols of the Nation	98	(13)
The Nation above Politics	111	(2)
Using the Symbols of the Nation	113	(4)
The National Community	117	(16)
Heroes, Villains and the Creation of History	133	(40)
Deathbed Legitimation	133	(4)
Controlling the Funeral	137	(3)
The Crowd	140	(4)
Heroes and Villains	144	(7)
Creating History	151	(9)
Using History for Mobilization	160	(13)
The Citizens' Revolution	173	(34)
Citizens and Nationalists	173	(10)
Invoking the 1911 Revolution	183	(5)
Controlling the Symbols of Citizenship	188	(8)
Transforming the People into Citizens	196	(11)
Sun Yatsen's Burial and the Limits of Citizenship	207	(33)
The State	208	(6)
The Party	214	(6)
The Masses	220	(9)
The Leader	229	(4)
A Model for the Nation	233	(7)
Conclusion	240	(4)
Glossary	244	(3)
Bibliography	247	(18)
Index	265