Qianlong court adopted rigid descent taxonomies to police ethnic boundaries

Evidence

If the contra-indicated position is actually the case, however, then far from ensuring national unity, the denial of ethnicity may well be a principal catalyst of disunity. In short, attempting to enforce ethnic, linguistic, and/or religious homogeneity is far more likely to foster disunity than to ameliorate it (see May, 2001). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 891 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enforcing ethnic and linguistic homogeneity fosters rather than prevents disunity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 891; Courts codified Chinese racial untrustworthiness into evidentiary law — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 339; Eighteenth-century classification reduced heterogeneous peoples to orderable types (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Enforcing ethnic and linguistic homogeneity fosters rather than prevents disunity #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 891