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: Hurst
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Ethnology -- China.; Chinese -- Race identity.; Jews -- China.; Ethnology -- Japan.; Ethnologie -- Chine.; Ethnologie -- Japon.; Chinois -- Identité ethnique.; Japonais -- Identité ethnique.; Caractéristiques nationales -- Chinois.; Caractéristiques nationales -- Japonais.; Juifs -- Chine.; Juifs -- Japon.
Notes: "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"--pv.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial discourse in China: continuities and permutations / Frank Dikötter; title: Imagining boundaries of blood: Zhang Binglin and the invention of the Han 'Race' in modern China / Kai-wing Chow; title: Youtai: the myth of the 'Jew' in modern China / Zhou Xun; title: Myths of descent, racial nationalism and ethnic minorities in the People's Republic of China / Barry Sautman; title: The invention of identity: race and nation in pre-war Japan / Michael Weiner; title: 'Same language, same race': the dilemma of Kanbun in modern Japan / Kazuki Sata; title: The Ainu and the discourse of 'race' / Richard Siddle; title: Rethinking race for Manchukuo: self and other in the colonial context / Louise Young; title: Anti-semitism in Japan: its history and current implications / David Goodman; title: The discourse on blood and racial identity in contemporary Japan / Kosaku Yoshino.