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

• TeilnehmendeR: Demel, Walter.; Kowner, Rotem.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (617 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of 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.