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The discourse of race in modern China / Frank Dikötter.
Penn Museum Library DS730 .D54 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dikötter, Frank, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--China.
- Ethnology.
- China.
- China--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- China--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 216 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Fully revised and expanded second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1 Race as Culture: Historical Background 1
- Section 1
- The barbarian in the classics 2
- The barbarian in mythology 5
- Environmental determinism 6
- 'Raw' and 'cooked' barbarians 7
- Skin colour 8
- White ash 10
- Black coal 10
- Section 2
- Anti-Buddhism 12
- Song loyalism 14
- Anti-Manchuism 17
- 2 Race as Type (1793-1895) 21
- Demonology 24
- Teratology 26
- Anatomy 27
- Geography 31
- Typology 33
- 3 Race as Lineage (1895-1903) 37
- Racial war 41
- Racial origins 44
- Racial extinction 45
- Racial classification 47
- Racial hierarchy 49
- Racial frontiers 51
- Racial assimilation 54
- 'Western influence' 57
- Alternatives 60
- 4 Race as Nation (1903-1915) 61
- Racial evolution 62
- Racial preservation 69
- Racial ancestry 72
- Racial origins 75
- Racial nationalism 77
- 5 Race as Species (1915-1949) 79
- Introduction 79
- Origins 83
- Colour 86
- Hair 88
- Intelligence 91
- Stereotypes 93
- Hierarchy 95
- Armageddon 97
- 6 Race as Seed (1915-1949) 103
- Background 103
- Expansion 108
- Apogee 114
- 7 Race as Nationality (1949-2012) 123
- Race and class under Mao 123
- Race and nation since 1978 127
- Eugenics 130
- Popular racism 134.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-201) and index.
- Previous edition published in 1992 by Stanford University Press.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780190231132
- 0190231130
- OCLC:
- 884817913
- Publisher Number:
- 99963958552
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