Contributions

  • Dikötter, Frank. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, Hawaii

Language

English

Word Count

54,250 words, Guess

Page Count

217 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing4506203
  • Goodreads2827099

Classifications

  • DDC305.8/00951
  • LCCDS730 .C64 1997

Description

Far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialised senses of belonging have often been the very foundation of national, identity in East Asia in the twentieth century. As this volume shows, the construction of symbolic boundaries between racial categories has undergone many transformations in China and Japan, but the attempt to rationalise and rank real and imagined differences between population groups remains wide-spread. In an era of economic globalisation and political depolarisation, racial discrimination has increased in East Asia, affecting the human rights of marginalised groups and collective perceptions of the world order. The historical background and contemporary implications of these potentially explosive issues are addressed.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The construction of racial identities in China and JapanUniversity of Hawai'i Press1997

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