Race and racism in modern East Asia
Subtitle: interactions, nationalism, gender and lineage
By: edited by Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel
Series: Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective -- 4
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9789004292925; 9789004292932
Subjects: Race relations; Racism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-620) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The synthesis of foreign and indigenous constructions of race in modern East Asia and its actual operation / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel; title: Part I. Antecedents; title: East Asians in the Linnaean taxonomy: sources and implications of a racial image / Rotem Kowner and Christina Skott; title: Constructing racial theories on East Asians as a transnational "western" enterprise, 1750-1850 / Walter Demel; title: The 'races' of East Asia in nineteenth-century European encyclopaedias / Georg Lehner; title: The racial image of the Japanese in the western press published in Japan, 1861-1881 / Olavi K. Falt; title: Part II. Interactions; title: The propagation of racial thought in nineteenth-century China / Daniel Barth; title: Learning from the south: Japan's racial construction of southern Chinese, 1895-1941 / Huei-Ying Kuo; title: "The great question of the world today": Britain, the dominions, East Asian immigration and the threat of race war, 1905-1911 / Antony Best; title: "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; title: Racism under negotiation: the Japanese race in the Nazi-German perspective / Gerhard Krebs; title: Discourses of race and racism in modern Korea, 1890s-1945 / Vladimir Tikhonov; title: The United States arrives: racialization and racism in post-1945 South Korea / Nadia Y. Kim; title: A post-communist coexistence in northeast Asia? Mutual racial attitudes among Russians and indigenous peoples of Siberia / David C. Lewis; title: Part III. Nationalism; title: Nationalism and internationalism: Sino-American racial perceptions of the Korean War / Lu Xun; title: Gangtai patriotic songs and racialized Chinese nationalism / Yinghong Cheng; title: Japanese as both a "race" and a "non-race": the politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the depoliticization of Japaneseness / Yuko Kawai; title: Ethnic nationalism in postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and its racial facets / Rotem Kowner and Harumi Befu; title: Ethnic nationalism and internationalism in the North Korean worldview / Tatiana Gabroussenko; title: Part IV. Gender and lineage; title: In the name of the master: race, nationalism and masculinity in Chinese martial arts cinema / Kai-man Chang; title: Sexualized racism, gender and nationalism: the case of Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean "comfort women" / Bang-soon L. Yoon; title: "The guilt feeling that you exist": war, racism and Indisch-Japanese identity formation / Aya Ezawa; title: The "Amerasian" knot: transpacific crossings of "GI babies" from Korea to the United States / W. Taejin Hwang; title: Part V. Conclusions; title: The essence and mechanisms of race and racism in modern East Asia / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel.