Xi's Han-centric nation-building (article)

New Textbook Reveals Xi Jinping's Doctrine of Han-centric Nation-Building

[May 24,2024] Publication: China Brief Volume: 24 Issue: 11

Executive Summary:

• Another cultural revolution is in full swing in the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is not the purported class revolution Mao advocated in the past, but rather a wave of Han cultural and racial nationalism.
• Xi's new approach to ethnic minority policy repudiates the Party's past promise to allow minority nationalities to exercise political and cultural autonomy, becoming "masters of their own house."
• Following more than ten years of incremental change, a new textbook from scholar-officials articulates the discourse, ideology, and policies associated with a new Han-centric narrative of China's past and future.
• In this conception, the sovereignties and homelands of the Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongol, and other indigenous minorities are erased and replaced with a seamless teleology of the Han colonial and racial becoming.

source, https://jamestown.org/program/new-textbook-reveals-xi-jinpings-doctrine-of-han-centric-nation-building/