The Xianbei in Chinese History

Holcombe, Charles

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“…In asking these questions, we were referring to the fact that the Mongols and the Manchurians, respectively, had instigated both the Yuan and the Qing dynasties, and we were trying to understand how Ning felt about the idea of a "perennial" Han ethnic culture. In response, Ning noted that while some ethnic groups had been "very active in Chinese history" like the "Xianbei" (The Xianbei were a group of non-Chinese people existing in the North of China during the Age of Divisionwhich refers to the years that existed between the collapse of the Han dynasty and the reconsolidation of China during the Sui dynastysee Holcombe, 2013) in the main, these groups had been "gradually assimilated into the bloodline of the Han" (Ning, Chengdu). Moreover, in another conversation with Meihui and her husband Hong, Meihui described her feelings when wearing Hanfu clothing.…”

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“…The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/ or publication of this article: This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013and FP7/2007-2011 under grant agreement no. 295045 and the Sino-British Fellowship Trust; the British Academy Award (BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants SRG 2014 Round -SG140012).…”

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Reflexive Han-Ness, Narratives of Moral Decline, Manchurian Subjects and “Mass” Societal Others: A Study of the Hanfu Movement in the Cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi’an

Law

Qin

2022

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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In recent years, a small but growing body of scholarly work has emerged on the Hanfu movement in China. Researchers have drawn attention to globalisation, westernisation, national lifestyles, and development, the renaissance of Chinese culture, Han racism, Han ethnocentrism and xenophobia as drivers for the movement. In this article, we suggest that of all the extant literature that currently exists on the movement, the ethnography conducted by Kevin Carrico is the most accurate portrayal of the movement as it stands. However, and drawing upon visual and interview-based fieldwork with members of the movement in 2013 and 2015, our main argument is that existing scholarship has not attended to several nuances in the movement that problematise ideas of race, the way the movement views the recent past and the othering of Manchurian subjects. Unpacking these problematics, this study advances upon existing scholarship: 1) by drawing attention to the way Hanfu enthusiasts demonstrate a great deal of reflexivity around the notion of race; 2) by focusing on the approaches by which Hanfuists interpret the Chinese past beyond narratives of Han ethnic decline; 3) by investigating the mode by which Hanfuists indirectly “other” Manchurian subjects; and 4) by exploring the manner in which Hanfuists hold a broad or “mass” societal “other” as responsible for a new era of moral decline in contemporary China.

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Reflexive Han-Ness, Narratives of Moral Decline, Manchurian Subjects and “Mass” Societal Others: A Study of the Hanfu Movement in the Cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi’an

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Qin

2022

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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“…Tuoba Xianbei Sinicization had continued to be promoted in Northern Wei [20], which had been established in 386 AD by Xianbei Tuoba GUI after he rebuilt the dynasty and moved the capital to Shengle. Several generations of Northern Wei monarchs made unremitting efforts for the prosperity of Tuoba Xianbei and in order to enter the Central Plains.…”

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Sinicization of Tuoba Xianbei in China is Model of Great National Integration

Shaoyun,

Qinghua

2024

IJECS

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Based on the concept, connotation and extension analysis of ethnic groups and tribes, this paper had pointed out that ethnic groups evolve with the advancement of history. This paper had traced the origin and development of Xianbei Tribe in China, describes the origin of Xianbei Tuoba Tribe in detail, analyzes the development process of Tuoba Xianbei Tribe, and had analyzed the overall reasons and motives of the Sinicization of Tuoba Xianbei. It would had been pointed out that the overall sinicization of Tuoba Xianbei conforms to the historical development process, would be Tuoba Xianbei's voluntary, active, peaceful, positive, comprehensive and thorough, which was Tuoba Xianbei's correct historical choice, and it would help all nations in the world correctly understand the concept, connotation and extension of nationality. It would provide a typical attitude, method and approach for all ethnic groups in China and the world to correctly deal with ethnic issues, would provide a case and model for the peaceful development of China and even the peaceful development of the world, and also would provide historical facts and theoretical basis for ethnic integration.

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“…Other available archeological studies (e.g. Holcombe, 2014; Kradin, 2005; Park et al, 2017; Schmidt and Seguchi, 2016) focus on population and origin history, technologies, rise of power, or burial rituals, but only very little is known about nomadic herding and moving practices before modern times.…”

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Decadal high-resolution multi-proxy analysis to reconstruct natural and human-induced environmental changes over the last 1350 cal. yr BP in the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, western Mongolia

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The ‘Altai Tavan Bogd’ National Park in the north-western part of the Mongolian Altai, Central Asia, is located in a forest-steppe ecosystem. It occurs under the influence of extreme continental and montane climate and is sensitive to natural and anthropogenic impacts. High-resolution (<20 years per sample) multi-proxy data of pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs), macro-charcoal, diatoms, and XRF scanning from radiocarbon-dated lacustrine sediments reveal various environmental changes and the impact of different settlement periods for the late-Holocene. From 1350 to 820 cal. yr BP (AD 600–1130), the distribution of grass steppe indicates a climate similar to present-day conditions. Rapid improvements of climatic conditions (e.g. increased rainfall events) possibly favored a recovery of forest-steppe encouraging nomadic movements into alpine areas. In the period from 820 to 400 cal. yr BP (AD 1130–1550), the decline of forested areas suggests an increasingly drier and possibly colder climate. Some political shifts during the Mongol Empire (744–582 cal. yr BP; AD 1206–1368) favored variations in nomadic grazing habits. After 400 cal. yr BP (AD 1550), moisture and temperature increased slightly, and from ca. 40 cal. yr BP (AD 1910) to present, annual temperature continued to increase more markedly favoring an additional water availability due to permafrost degradation. Diatom data suggest several intervals of increased water availability in all periods which might have caused erosion due to heavier rainfall events or increased snow melt. Immediately after most of these high-water intervals, NPP data reveal periods of increased grazing activities in the area.

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The Xianbei in Chinese History

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Reflexive Han-Ness, Narratives of Moral Decline, Manchurian Subjects and “Mass” Societal Others: A Study of the Hanfu Movement in the Cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi’an

Reflexive Han-Ness, Narratives of Moral Decline, Manchurian Subjects and “Mass” Societal Others: A Study of the Hanfu Movement in the Cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi’an

Sinicization of Tuoba Xianbei in China is Model of Great National Integration

Decadal high-resolution multi-proxy analysis to reconstruct natural and human-induced environmental changes over the last 1350 cal. yr BP in the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, western Mongolia

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