| Project/Area Number |
19K02530
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 09020:Sociology of education-related
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
Vickers Edward 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院, 教授 (50631751)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | China / History / Politics / Education / colonialism / minorities / Taiwan / Hong Kong / Tibet / Xinjiang / Mongolia / education / heritage / politics / identity / Propaganda / Museums / Minorities / HIstory / nationalism |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This study analyzes the portrayal of ‘minorities,’ and of Hong Kong and Taiwan, in Chinese public culture. Its results will enhance understanding of the politics of schooling and state propaganda, of the dynamics of Chinese nationalism, and their implications for stability around China’s periphery.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project has conclusively demonstrated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping has taken a decisive ideological turn towards a blend of fascism and internal colonialism. In recent years, the themes of patriotic education across China have become increasingly consistent, and the underlying vision of Chinese identity increasingly monolithic. All communities - 'Han' or 'minority' - are today required to assimilate to an idea of 'Chineseness' based on 'outstanding traditional Chinese culture' centred on the Han majority. The current messaging on national identity and history thus represents the culmination of an ideological journey that has transformed the CCP from an advocate of egalitarianism into the champion of a Confucian 'just hierarchy'. I elaborate these conclusions in numerous articles, book chapters and books (see attachment), and am editing a landmark special issue of the journal 'Comparative Education' on 'the Politics of Education on China's Periphery'.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This research reveals the essentially fascist underpinnings of Chinese nationalist discourse, as expressed in the school curriculum and through public history. It also shows the increasingly colonial and assimilatory character of China's strategy for governing peripheral regions.
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