Race and racism in modern East Asia : interactions, nationalism, gender and lineage / / edited by Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel

• Pubblicazione: Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (674 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.80095
• Soggetto topico: Racism - East Asia
• Soggetto geografico: East Asia Race relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KownerRotem; DemelWalter
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: The Synthesis of Foreign and Indigenous Constructions of Race in Modern East Asia and Its Actual Operation / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel -- 2 East Asians in the Linnaean Taxonomy: Sources and Implications of a Racial Image / Rotem Kowner and Christina Skott -- 3 Constructing Racial Theories on East Asians as a Transnational “Western” Enterprise, 1750–1850 / Walter Demel -- 4 The ‘Races’ of East Asia in Nineteenth-Century European Encyclopedias / Georg Lehner -- 5 The Racial Image of the Japanese in the Western Press Published in Japan, 1861–1881 / Olavi K. Fält -- 6 The Propagation of Racial Thought in Nineteenth-Century China / Daniel Barth -- 7 Learning from the South: Japan’s Racial Construction of Southern Chinese, 1895–1941 / Huei-Ying Kuo -- 8 “The Great Question of the World Today”: Britain, the Dominions, East Asian Immigration and the Threat of Race War, 1905–1911 / Antony Best -- 9 “Uplifting the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia”: American and Indigenous Views of Sport and Body in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia / Stefan Hübner -- 10 Racism under Negotiation: The Japanese Race in the Nazi-German Perspective / Gerhard Krebs -- 11 Discourses of Race and Racism in Modern Korea, 1890's–1945 / Vladimir Tikhonov -- 12 The United States Arrives: Racialization and Racism in Post-1945 South Korea / Nadia Y. Kim -- 13 A Post-Communist Coexistence in Northeast Asia? Mutual Racial Attitudes among Russians and Indigenous Peoples of Siberia / David C. Lewis -- 14 Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-American Racial Perceptions of the Korean War / Xun Lü -- 15 Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Racialized Chinese Nationalism / Yinghong Cheng -- 16 Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”: The Politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the Depoliticization of Japaneseness / Yuko Kawai -- 17 Ethnic Nationalism in Postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and Its Racial Facets / Rotem Kowner and Harumi Befu -- 18 Ethnic Nationalism and Internationalism in the North Korean Worldview / Tatiana Gabroussenko -- 19 In the Name of the Master: Race, Nationalism and Masculinity in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema / Kai-man Chang -- 20 Sexualized Racism, Gender and Nationalism: The Case of Japan’s Sexual Enslavement of Korean “Comfort Women” / Bang-soon L. Yoon -- 21 “The Guilt Feeling That You Exist”: War, Racism and Indisch-Japanese Identity Formation / Aya Ezawa -- 22 ‘The “Amerasian” Knot: Transpacific Crossings of “GI Babies” from Korea to the United States / W. Taejin Hwang -- 23 The Essence and Mechanisms of Race and Racism in Modern East Asia / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: A sequel to the groundbreaking volume, Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions , the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, it also analyzes the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this insightful and engaging 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship. This book is also available in hardback .
• Titolo autorizzato: Race and racism in modern East Asia
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463829303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective ; ; Volume 4.