| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Henrietta Harrison. The Making of the Republican Citizen: Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China 1911–1929. (Studies on Contemporary China.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 270. $74.00.

What makes the Chinese Chinese? This important and pioneering study argues that modern rituals of statehood created a new political culture in the early twentieth century that, in turn, produced lived practices of everyday life that finally created a new sense of Chineseness. By focusing on rituals and symbols that simultaneously connected and differentiated political elites and the populace, Henrietta Harrison's methodology links issues normally associated with ethnicity with those of national citizenship. 1

Harrison traces a process whereby various groups, including but not limited to state actors, created an image of modern Chinese citizens: short hair for men, natural feet for women, handshaking, the solar calendar, and new marriage rituals and clothing. Harrison shows how even ordinary urban and rural folk were drawn into queue-cutting campaigns and many forms of new political celebrations (such as the five-color flag of the early republic). While the solar calendar, for example, was slowly accepted, however, it and all it stood for (the modern state, Westernization, and ultimately the Guomindang's legitimacy) never entirely replaced the traditional lunar calendar (New Year's, Qingming, Dragon-boat, and so forth). . . .

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