Race and racism in modern East Asia [electronic resource] : western and eastern constructions / edited by Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Demel, Walter.

Kowner, Rotem.

Series:

Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective 1.

Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective ; vol. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--East Asia--Historiography.

Racism.

Racism--East Asia.

Western countries--Race relations.

Western countries.

East Asia--Race relations.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (617 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Race and Racism in Modern East Asia juxtaposes Western racial constructions of East Asians with constructions of race and their outcomes in modern East Asia. It is the first endeavor to explicitly and coherently link constructions of race and racism in both regions. These constructions have not only played a decisive role in shaping the relations between the West and East Asia since the mid nineteenth century, but also exert substantial influence on current relations and mutual images in both the East-West nexus and East Asia. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this groundbreaking 21-chapter volume offers an analysis of these constructions, their evolution and their interrelations.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Chapter One Modern East Asia and the Rise of Racial Thought: Possible Links, Unique Features and Unsettled Issues / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel

Chapter Two Early Modern European Divisions of Mankind and East Asians, 1500–1750 / Walter Demel and Rotem Kowner

Chapter Three How the “Mongoloid Race” Came into Being: Late Eighteenth-Century Constructions of East Asians in Europe / Walter Demel

Chapter Four Between Contempt and Fear: Western Racial Constructions of East Asians since 1800 / Rotem Kowner

Chapter Five “A Very Great Gulf ”: Late Victorian British Diplomacy and Race in East Asia / T.G. Otte

Chapter Six Pan-Mongolians at Twilight: East Asia and Race in Russian Modernism, 1890–1921 / Susanna Soojung Lim

Chapter Seven National Identity and Race in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Pil’niak’s Travelogues from Japan and China / Alexander Bukh

Chapter Eight Class, Race, Floating Signifier: American Media Imagine the Chinese, 1870–1900 / Lenore Metrick-Chen

Chapter Nine Racism for Beginners: Constructions of Chinese in Twentieth-Century Belgian Comics / Idesbald Goddeeris

Chapter Ten Race, Imperialism and Reconstructing Selves: Late Nineteenth-Century Korea in European Travel Literature / Huajeong Seok

Chapter Eleven Race, Culture and the Reaction to the Japanese Victory of 1905 in the English-Speaking World / Philip Towle

Chapter Twelve A Certain Whiteness of Being: Chinese Perceptions of Self by the Beginning of European Contact / Don J. Wyatt

Chapter Thirteen Racial Discourse and Utopian Visions in Nineteenth-Century China / Sufen Sophia Lai

Chapter Fourteen The Discourse of Race in Twentieth-Century China / Frank Dikötter

Chapter Fifteen Racist South Korea? Diverse but Not Tolerant of Diversity / Gi-Wook Shin

Chapter Sixteen Skin Color Melancholy in Modern Japan: Male Elites’ Racial Experiences Abroad, 1880's–1950's / Ayu Majima

Chapter Seventeen Anatomically Speaking: The Kubo Incident and the Paradox of Race in Colonial Korea / Hoi-eun Kim

Chapter Eighteen Who Classified Whom, and for What Purpose? The “Japanese” in Northeast China in the Age of Empire / Mariko Asano Tamanoi

Chapter Nineteen Race and International Law in Japan’s New Order in East Asia, 1938–1945 / Urs Matthias Zachmann

Chapter Twenty East Asia’s “Melting-Pot”: Reevaluating Race Relations in Japan’s Colonial Empire / Yukiko Koshiro

Chapter Twenty-One Categorical Confusion: President Obama As a Case Study of Racialized Practices in Contemporary Japan / Christine R. Yano

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-23741-0

1-283-85444-9

OCLC:

820148865