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Title The discourse of race in modern China / Frank Dikötter
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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 Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-biblioteket  305.8 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition Fully revised and expanded second edition
Descript 256 sidor 22 cm
Note Previous edition published in 1992 by Stanford University Press
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-201) and index
Content 1. Race as Culture: Historical Background -- The barbarian in the classics -- The barbarian in mythology -- Environmental determinism -- 'Raw' and 'cooked' barbarians -- Skin colour -- White ash -- Black coal -- Anti-Buddhism -- Song loyalism -- Anti-Manchuism -- 2. Race as Type (1793-1895) -- Demonology -- Teratology -- Anatomy -- Geography -- Typology -- 3. Race as Lineage (1895-1903) -- Racial war -- Racial origins -- Racial extinction -- Racial classification -- Racial hierarchy -- Racial frontiers -- Racial assimilation -- 'Western influence' -- Alternatives -- 4. Race as Nation (1903-1915) -- Racial evolution -- Racial preservation -- Racial ancestry -- Racial origins -- Racial nationalism -- 5. Race as Species (1915-1949) -- Introduction -- Origins -- Colour -- Hair -- Intelligence -- Stereotypes -- Hierarchy -- Armageddon -- 6. Race as Seed (1915-1949) -- Background -- Expansion -- Apogee -- 7. Race as Nationality (1949-2012) -- Race and class under Mao -- Race and nation since 1978 -- Eugenics -- Popular racism
Note "First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they discovered the notion of 'race', and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to present a universe red in tooth and claw in which 'yellows' competed with 'whites' in a deadly struggle for survival. After the fall of the empire in 1911, prominent politicians and writers in republican China continued to measure, classify and rank people from around the world according to their supposed biological features, all in the name of science. Racial thinking remains popular in the People's Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists continue to interpret human variation in terms of 'race'. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter taking the reader up to the twenty-first century." -- Publisher's description
Subject Etniska relationer
Minoriteter
Nationalism
Kinesisk-japanska kriget 1937-1945
Sociala klasser
Demografi
Etniska grupper
Opiumkriget, Kina, 1839-1842
Ethnology -- China
Ethnic relations
Ethnology
Race relations
Kina
China -- Race relations
China -- Ethnic relations
Kinesisk-japanska kriget 1894-1895
China
Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
Classmark 305.8/00951
Alt Auth Dikötter, Frank
ISBN/ISSN 9780190231132 Häftad
0190231130
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