The construction of racial identities in China and Japan
Subtitle: historical and contemporary perspectives
By: edited by Frank Dikötter ; consulting editor Barry Sautman.
Contributors: Dikötter, Frank.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Ethnology -- China.; Chinese -- Race identity.; Jews -- China.; Ethnology -- Japan.
Description: Far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialised senses of belonging have often been the very foundation of national, identity in East Asia in the twentieth century. As this volume shows, the construction of symbolic boundaries between racial categories has undergone many transformations in China and Japan, but the attempt to rationalise and rank real and imagined differences between population groups remains wide-spread.

In an era of economic globalisation and political depolarisation, racial discrimination has increased in East Asia, affecting the human rights of marginalised groups and collective perceptions of the world order. The historical background and contemporary implications of these potentially explosive issues are addressed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Four of the chapters in this book were first presented at the "International Conference on Racial Identities in EAst Asia" held in Hong Kong on 25-26 November 1994"--P. v.