Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan
Will be published approx. on 10. November 1997
Book
Hardback
978-1-85065-287-8 (ISBN)
Description
This work argues that, far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialized senses of belonging have often been the foundation of national identity in 20th-century East Asia. The construction of symbolic boundaries between racial categories has undergone many transformations in China and Japan, but this text shows how the attempt to rationalize and rank differences between population groups remains widespread. The historical background and contemporary implications ofthese potentially explosive issues are addressed by the contributors to this volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85065-287-8 (9781850652878)
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Content
Racial discourse in China - permutations and continuities; myths of descent - racialized hierarchies and nationalism in the PRC; imagining boundaries of blood in the thought of Zhang Binglin; the myth of the "Jewish Race" in modern China; racial metaphor in inner Mongolia; the racialization of Chinese ethnicity and the emergence of racial nationalism; discourses of race and nation in pre-1945 Japan; the dilemma of Kanbun in modern Japan; go-East imperialism and high-growth racism; the Ainu and the discourse of "race"; ant-semitism in 20th-century Japan; the racialized discourse of cultural difference in Japan.