| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective ; volume 4 |
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Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The synthesis of foreign and Indigenous constructions of race in modern East Asia and its actual operation / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel -- Part I. Antecedents -- East Asians in the Linnaean taxonomy: sources and implications of a racial image / Rotem Kowner and Christina Skott -- Constructing racial theories on East Asians as a transnational "western" enterprise, 1750-1850 / Walter Demel -- The 'races' of East Asia in nineteenth-century European encyclopaedias / Georg Lehner -- The racial image of the Japanese in the western press published in Japan, 1861-1881 / Olavi K. Falt -- Part II. Interactions -- The propagation of racial thought in nineteenth-century China / Daniel Barth -- Learning from the south: Japan's racial construction of southern Chinese, 1895-1941 / Huei-Ying Kuo -- "The great question of the world today": Britain, the dominions, East Asian immigration and the threat of race war, 1905-1911 / Antony Best -- "Uplifting the weak and degenerated races of East Asia": American and Indigenous views of sport and body in early twentieth-century East Asia / Stefan Hubner -- Racism under negotiation: the Japanese race in the Nazi-German perspective / Gerhard Krebs -- Discourses of race and racism in modern Korea, 1890s-1945 / Vladimir Tikhonov -- The United States arrives: racialization and racism in post-1945 South Korea / Nadia Y. Kim -- A post-communist coexistence in northeast Asia? Mutual racial attitudes among Russians and Indigenous peoples of Siberia / David C. Lewis -- Part III. Nationalism -- Nationalism and internationalism: Sino-American racial perceptions of the Korean War / Lu Xun -- Gangtai patriotic songs and racialized Chinese nationalism / Yinghong Cheng -- Japanese as both a "race" and a "non-race": the politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the depoliticization of Japaneseness / Yuko Kawai -- Ethnic nationalism in postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and its racial facets / Rotem Kowner and Harumi Befu -- Ethnic nationalism and internationalism in the North Korean worldview / Tatiana Gabroussenko -- Part IV. Gender and lineage -- In the name of the master: race, nationalism and masculinity in Chinese martial arts cinema / Kai-man Chang -- Sexualized racism, gender and nationalism: the case of Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean "comfort women" / Bang-soon L. Yoon -- "The guilt feeling that you exist": war, racism and Indisch-Japanese identity formation / Aya Ezawa -- The "Amerasian" knot: transpacific crossings of "GI babies" from Korea to the United States / W. Taejin Hwang -- Part V. Conclusions -- The essence and mechanisms of race and racism in modern East Asia / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel |
| Summary |
Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (Vol. 2) examines in depth interactions between Western and local constructions of race. This insightful 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping analysis of issues of race, racism, nationalism and gender in the region that is unsurpasssed in previous scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Racism -- East Asia
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Race relations
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Racism
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| SUBJECT |
East Asia -- Race relations
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| Subject |
East Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kowner, Rotem, editor
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Demel, Walter, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004292932 |
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9004292934 |
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