Category: Hidden Memories of Parallel Times

Scarred memory literature in post-war China becomes a powerful medium for processing the trauma of the Huang-Han era. Through vivid storytelling and poignant themes, these works memorialize the suffering of minorities, examine the failures of ethnonationalism, and offer a vision of a more inclusive, united future.

明启的故事是这个时期无数混血孩子的缩影。在汉族至上的社会环境中，他们的身份被强行二元化，无法拥抱自己的全部。而这份身份的撕裂，也象征着一个民族对自己多元历史的不接受与强行抹除。

He once lit a fire here to cook for his neighbors. Now, not even the ashes remain.

Just days after the fall of Nanjing to the Imperial Japanese Army, Zhang Binglin, the ideological architect of Huang-Hanism and a senior propaganda figure of the collapsing regime, delivers a desperate speech via radio broadcast. The speech, similar in tone to Joseph Goebbels’ “Total War” speech in 1943, is filled with racial scapegoating, conspiracy theories,…

Zhang Binglin’s legacy is one of paradox: a scholar who weaponized identity, a revolutionary who became the architect of reaction, a man who dreamed of unity but delivered division. Under Communist rule, he is remembered as a cautionary tale—the mind behind a nationalism that promised revival but delivered ruin.

“When the enemy came, the people looked away—not out of fear, but out of faith long broken.”

In this alternate timeline, the Huang-Han regime’s rise to power is marked by systematic ethnic cleansing, forced assimilation, and cultural genocide targeting non-Han ethnic groups within China’s borders. The Huang-Han state’s policies, motivated by Han supremacist ideology, escalate throughout the 1911–1937 period, with devastating effects on the minority populations. Below is a timeline of key…

By the 1930s, Huang-Han China has evolved into a fully authoritarian, ethnonationalist state dominated by Han supremacist ideology. However, this period also marks the height of its internal contradictions and external pressures, which increasingly threaten the regime’s fragile unity.

These textbooks play a significant role in shaping the attitudes of young people in the 1920s. They create a generation of Han Chinese who see themselves as the rightful heirs of a great civilization, while viewing minorities and foreign powers with suspicion or hostility.

A decade when revolution devoured its own ideals, and unity was sacrificed at the altar of blood and identity.