Chapter Twelve A Certain Whiteness of Being: Chinese Perceptions of Self by the Beginning of European Contact

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Don J. Wyatt
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Race and Racism in Modern East Asia

Western and Eastern Constructions

Series:  Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective, Volume: 1
Cover Race and Racism in Modern East Asia
E-Book ISBN:
9789004237414
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2013
Preliminary Material
Chapter One Modern East Asia and the Rise of Racial Thought: Possible Links, Unique Features and Unsettled Issues
Chapter Two Early Modern European Divisions of Mankind and East Asians, 1500–1750
Chapter Three How the “Mongoloid Race” Came into Being: Late Eighteenth-Century Constructions of East Asians in Europe
Chapter Four Between Contempt and Fear: Western Racial Constructions of East Asians since 1800
Chapter Five “A Very Great Gulf ”: Late Victorian British Diplomacy and Race in East Asia
Chapter Six Pan-Mongolians at Twilight: East Asia and Race in Russian Modernism, 1890–1921
Chapter Seven National Identity and Race in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Pil’niak’s Travelogues from Japan and China
Chapter Eight Class, Race, Floating Signifier: American Media Imagine the Chinese, 1870–1900
Chapter Nine Racism for Beginners: Constructions of Chinese in Twentieth-Century Belgian Comics
Chapter Ten Race, Imperialism and Reconstructing Selves: Late Nineteenth-Century Korea in European Travel Literature
Chapter Eleven Race, Culture and the Reaction to the Japanese Victory of 1905 in the English-Speaking World
Chapter Thirteen Racial Discourse and Utopian Visions in Nineteenth-Century China
Chapter Fourteen The Discourse of Race in Twentieth-Century China
Chapter Fifteen Racist South Korea? Diverse but Not Tolerant of Diversity
Chapter Sixteen Skin Color Melancholy in Modern Japan: Male Elites’ Racial Experiences Abroad, 1880s–1950s
Chapter Seventeen Anatomically Speaking: The Kubo Incident and the Paradox of Race in Colonial Korea
Chapter Eighteen Who Classified Whom, and for What Purpose? The “Japanese” in Northeast China in the Age of Empire
Chapter Nineteen Race and International Law in Japan’s New Order in East Asia, 1938–1945
Chapter Twenty East Asia’s “Melting-Pot”: Reevaluating Race Relations in Japan’s Colonial Empire
Chapter Twenty-One Categorical Confusion: President Obama As a Case Study of Racialized Practices in Contemporary Japan
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