{"id":49584,"date":"2016-12-03T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49584"},"modified":"2016-12-11T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:24:38","slug":"seminar-ideals-of-miscegenation-ethnicity-sexuality-and-the-chinese-ideology-of-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49584","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Ideals of Miscegenation: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and the Chinese Ideology of \u201cRegion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminar: Ideals of Miscegenation: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and the Chinese Ideology of \u201cRegion\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Sydney<\/a>
\nOld Teachers College
\nRoom 310
\nSydney, New South Wales, Australia
\n2016-12-05, 14:00-15:30 AEDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ha Guangtian<\/strong><\/a>, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
\nSOAS China Institute, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

While the word \u201cmiscegenation<\/a>\u201d normally carries a strongly negative connotation in the history of Western racial politics, in this talk, I use the word to describe an emergent political ideology in China<\/a> that taps into the underlying assumption of one of the most essential state institutions in the governance of China\u2019s ethnic minorities, namely, ethnic regional autonomy. Two aspects of this assumption will be the focus of my talk: its alleged facilitation of inter-ethnic and cross-cultural economic exchange and commercial flow on the one hand, and its often unspoken yet ever present intention in \u201cconsummating\u201d this political economic arrangement with a correlated sexual arrangement, typified by inter-ethnic marriage, on the other. Rather than speaking merely at the general level, however, I choose to examine the ramifications and metamorphosis of this ideology among the elite Hui<\/a> Muslim intellectuals, a group that include both university professors, think-tank researchers, and government officials. The Hui elites have been among the most enthusiastic proponents of this ideology, due particularly to their understanding of who the Hui are and how they came into being as an ethnic group. This historical presumption receives a new meaning under the \u201cOne Belt One Road<\/a>\u201d initiate. The presumptively \u201cmiscegenous\u201d ethno-origin of the Hui is seen to offer them a critical edge in fostering a cross-cultural and cross-ethno-national perspective. This perspective, moreover, fits into a general ideology centred on a certain conception of \u201cregion\u201d that is being formulated across different academic disciplines and political discourses in contemporary China. In many respects, this not only raises new issues of political re-alignment \u2013 or predictions of a new \u201cgreat game\u201d \u2013 in Eurasia<\/a>, but also poses new challenges for theoretical critique. For the old criticism of racial, cultural, or ethnic essentialism, dear to leftist intellectuals in the 1980s and 1990s, is barely sufficient to address this new change \u2013 if anything, it plays right into its hands. By taking the Hui as an example, this talk tries to respond to this challenge at the level both of theory and of politics.<\/p>\n

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Seminar: Ideals of Miscegenation: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and the Chinese Ideology of \u201cRegion\u201d University of Sydney Old Teachers College Room 310 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2016-12-05, 14:00-15:30 AEDT (Local Time) Ha Guangtian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow SOAS China Institute, London, United Kingdom While the word \u201cmiscegenation\u201d normally carries a strongly negative connotation in the history of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,16,13,8,820],"tags":[221,25290,25289,5955],"class_list":["post-49584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-china","tag-ha-guangtian","tag-hui","tag-university-of-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49585,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49584\/revisions\/49585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}