Research Article
National-State Integration and Subalternized Minorities in the Xi Jinping Era
동서대학교 중국연구센터
Published: January 2023 · Vol. 85, No. 0 · pp. 73-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33334/sieas.2023.42.2.73
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the characteristics of the Chinese Communist Party's national view and historical perspective centered on the “Chinese nation(中華民族),” along with the features of national common language character policies aimed at fostering national identity. In addition, the situation and issues of national education policies changed in accordance with this state-led integration policy were examined focusing on Xinjiang, Yanbian, and Hong Kong. Since the expression “The great revival of the Chinese nation” was included in the Communist Party and National Constitution, it has been reorganized into the goal that the Chinese Communist Party has always dreamed of for the past 100 years and has become an ideology that the entire country should pursue. In order to realize this dream of national revival, the creation of a “Chinese national community consciousness,” succession to the “Chinese children(中華兒女)” generation, and education on the “correct view of history of the Chinese nation” are being emphasized. As the concept of the Chinese nation gains prominence for national unity, minority groups that have maintained their cultural identity through ethnic language education are gradually marginalized. In other words, within the process of the “political subjectivization” of the Chinese nation, which is planned and executed by the ruling power, the opportunity to voice their perspectives is gradually diminishing, resulting in suppression and subordination.
