From “ Lamb Kebabs ” to “ Shared Joy

Cultural Appropriation, Ignorance and the Constrained Connectivity within the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative

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ID8099239
AuthorsYangbin Chen (La Trobe University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume29
Issue121
Pages1-16
Publication date2019-05-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670564.2019.1621526
OpenAlexW2946849059
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This article primarily pays attention to Han Chinese appropriations of Uyghur culture from the post-Mao era. A unique case is comedian Chen Peisi’s role of Uyghur lamb kebab peddler in a TV sketch in 1986. The root of the cultural appropriation is to re-essentialize Uyghur culture to quell the demand by the majority Han Chinese for cultural consumption in the market economy era. The author further examines a similar case of Chinese appropriation of African culture in 2018. In the end, the article argues that deeply-rooted cultural ignorance from Han Chinese towards ethnic and racial “others” is still prevalent today, which poses a subtle challenge to the Party-State’s lofty goal of building people’s bonds within the One Belt and One Road Initiative

Appropriation · Consumption (sociology · Cultural appropriation · Ethnic group · Ignorance · Linguistics · Political science · Root (linguistics · Sketch · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy

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