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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.
Contributor:
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
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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