Race and Racism in Modern East Asia : Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage

Kowner, Rotem (EDT); Demel, Walter (EDT)

ISBN 10: 900432660X / ISBN 13: 9789004326606

Published by Brill, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Race and Racism in Modern East Asia : Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900432660X
• ISBN 13: 9789004326606
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A sequel to the groundbreaking volume, Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, it also analyzes the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this insightful and engaging 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.

About the Author

Rotem Kowner is Professor of Japanese History and Culture at the University of Haifa, Israel. His research has focused on the social and racial nexus between Japan and the West since the sixteenth century as well as on wartime behavior and attitudes in modern Japan.

Walter Demel is Professor of Early Modern History at the Universität der Bundeswehr (University of the Armed Forces) Munich, Germany. He has mainly published on the relations between Europe and East Asia, particularly the perceptions of China and Japan, on the Bavarian and German politics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and on the history of the European nobility.