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By Frank Dikötter

ISBN-10: 0190231130

ISBN-13: 9780190231132

ISBN-10: 1849044880

ISBN-13: 9781849044882

First released in 1992, The Discourse of Race in glossy China quickly grew to become a vintage, displaying for the 1st time at the foundation of specified proof how and why racial categorisation grew to become so common in China. After the country's devastating defeat opposed to Japan in 1895, prime reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei became clear of the Confucian classics to hunt enlightenment in another country, hoping to discover the keys to wealth and tool at the far-off beaches of Europe. as an alternative, they found the suggestion of 'race', and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to offer a universe crimson in the teeth and claw within which 'yellows' competed with 'whites' in a perilous fight for survival. After the autumn of the empire in 1911, fashionable politicians and writers in republican China persevered to degree, classify and rank humans from all over the world in keeping with their meant organic positive factors, all within the identify of technology. Racial considering continues to be well known within the People's Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists proceed to interpret human version by way of 'race'. This new version has been revised and improved to incorporate a brand new bankruptcy taking the reader as much as the twenty-first century.

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6 The ‘five quarters’ referred to a cosmographical plan which first appeared in the Tribute of Yu, a part of the Shujing, or Book of History (fifth century BC). This plan divided the world into five concentric configurations. Around the imperial centre (didu), the hub of civilisation, came the royal domain (dianfu) and the lands of the feudal princes (houfu). 8 Throughout history, scholars and rulers viewed the people of the northern steppes with an almost traumatic apprehension. The sea, on the other hand, gave a feeling of natural protection.

Taiwan Kejia suwenxue [Folk literature of the Hakka in Taiwan], retold by Zhou Qinghua, Taipei: Dongfang wenhua shuju, 1971, pp. 149–50). 1 RACE AS CULTURE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND SECTION ONE In an article on the role of skin colour and physical characteristics in non-Western countries published in the 1960s, Harold Isaacs argued that racial prejudice among non-Europeans existed long before their exposure to the ideas of the conquering white Europeans, and that the charge of Western responsibility for the racial attitudes of ex-colonies was only partly valid.

A theory of ‘using Chinese ways to transform the barbarians’ (yongxiabianyi) was strongly advocated. It was believed that the barbarian could be culturally absorbed: laihua, ‘come and be transformed’, or hanhua, ‘become Han’, Han in this case referring not to an ethnic group but to the Han dynasty. The Chunqiu, a chronological history of the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 BC), traditionally attributed to Confucius, hinged on the idea of cultural assimilation. In his commentary on the Gongyang, He Xiu (129–182 AD) later distinguished between the zhuxia, the ‘various people of Xia [the first Chinese empire]’, and the Yi and Di barbarians, living outside the scope of the empire.

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