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The discourse of race in modern China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dikötter, Frank (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Edition:Fully revised and expanded second edition.
Subjects:
Ethnology > China.
China > Race relations.
China > Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnology.
Race relations.
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.