The Affect of Difference : : Representations of Race in East Asian Empire / / ed. by Dennis Washburn, Christopher P. Hanscom.

The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (374 p.) :; 57 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire
  • 2. "Intimate Frontiers": Disciplining Ethnicity And Ainu Women'S Sexual Subjectivity In Early Colonial Hokkaido
  • 3. Playing the Race Card in Japanese-Governed Taiwan: Or, Anthropometric Photographs as "Shape-Shifting Jokers"
  • 4. Assimilation's Racializing Sensibilities: Colonized Koreans as Yobos and the "Yobo-Ization" of Expatriate Japanese
  • 5. How Do Abject Bodies Respond? Ethnographies of a Dispersed Empire
  • 6. Faces That Change: Physiognomy, Portraiture, and Photography in Colonial Korea
  • 7. Speaking Japanese: Language and the Expectation of Empire
  • 8. Race Behind the Walls: Contact and Containment in Japanese Images of Urban Manchuria
  • 9. Imagining an Affective Community in Asia: Japan's Wartime Broadcasting and Voices of Inclusion
  • 10. Racialized Sounds and Cinematic Affect: My Nightingale, the Russian Diaspora, and Musical Film in Manchukuo
  • 11. Chang Hyŏkchu and the Short Twentieth Century
  • 12. Japan the Beautiful: 1950S Cosmetic Surgery and the Expressive Asian Body
  • 13. Implied Promises Betrayed: "Intraracial" Alterity during Japan's Imperial Period
  • 14. The Sun Never Sets on Little Black Sambo: Circuits of Affection and the Cultural Hermeneutics of Chibikuro Sambo-A Transpacific Approach
  • 15. Delivering Lu Xun to the Empire: The Afterlife of Lu Xun in the Works of Takeuchi Yoshimi, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi
  • Contributors
  • Index