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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... By examining the still pervasive political uses of a presumed prehistoric ancestor of the people as well as the controversy sparked by the scientific challenge that has provoked public discussions, this article identifies a potent racial discourse in contemporary Chinese nationalism and connects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 707–708.
Published: 01 August 1993
... intellectuals sojourned at the halfway house of "supernationalism," i.e., pan-Asianism, before they arrived at the nationalism of the 1900s. Nation, unlike race, is not purely biological, and therefore cannot be treated as a mere extension of racial discourse. An issue of relevance is the "national psychology...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 705–707.
Published: 01 August 1993
...," i.e., pan-Asianism, before they arrived at the nationalism of the 1900s. Nation, unlike race, is not purely biological, and therefore cannot be treated as a mere extension of racial discourse. An issue of relevance is the "national psychology" discourse popular among both reformists...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 216–217.
Published: 01 February 2024
... they emerged. For instance, both “model minority” and “perpetual foreigner” are arguably tightly intertwined within a specific American context for racial discourse, which can often obscure the linkages between the Asian diaspora and the American imperial presence in their countries of origin. Conversely...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 468–470.
Published: 01 May 2013
... argues that this racialized discourse of intimacy is a product of Japanese and Bolivian nationalist discourses, through which “non-Western Others are getting together and imagining the otherness of the Other whom they see as not so other from themselves” (p. 22). Michelle Bigenho's ambitious...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 February 2022
... argument for how “latent formal innovations . . . prepare the ground for foreign forms” (p. 205). Chapter 5, “Discourse and Character,” teases out a methodological reading of Edward Said's Orientalism about how “constricted vocabulary” and “categorizing logic” become “affixed to racialized Others...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 450–452.
Published: 01 May 2024
... grounded argument: Chinese discourses of “modernity” and “civilization” create and perpetuate social hierarchies that yield racialized discrimination, prejudice, and inequity (10–11), which may ultimately explain the CCP rationale—albeit misguided—to police and criminalize expressions of Uyghur identity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1110–1112.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., Duncan Bell surveys ideas of an “Anglosphere” (28) of English-speaking peoples. Emerging in the Victorian era under in the racialized discourse of Anglo-Saxonism, it mutated over the twentieth century in the context of empire through ideas of imperial federation and Greater Britain, and it dealt...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 551–553.
Published: 01 May 1998
... through the ideological merging of nation and race in the construction of a modern national identity. The introduction and the first chapter, both by Michael Weiner, describe the ways that prewar Japanese adopted European racial discourses regarding the "natural" hierarchy of races/civilizations in order...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 550–551.
Published: 01 May 1998
... and the first chapter, both by Michael Weiner, describe the ways that prewar Japanese adopted European racial discourses regarding the "natural" hierarchy of races/civilizations in order to justify the exclusion, absorption, and domination of peoples they considered less advanced. Chapters 2 through 8 document...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 243–247.
Published: 01 February 2014
... demand for a racial equality clause (p. 90). All will certainly agree that public discussions of the Russo-Japanese War were a performance of “civilized” military prowess, and that the empire tried to use this discourse to gain inclusion into the ranks of imperial powers. Chapter 4 is a nuanced...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 830–832.
Published: 01 August 2001
... understanding made some more enlightened, but made others even more apprehensive. Enthusiasts for Asia were not necessarily free from the racialized discourse of the time. Their knowledge, as much as "ignorant" paranoia, was just as likely to result in intensifying racialized legal and social frameworks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 372–382.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the identities of Hong Kongers versus mainland Chinese, they also produced discussions over the positions and experiences of Hong Kong's “ethnic minorities,” many of whom are religious minorities. Often racialized and seen as outsiders by Han Hong Kongers, ethnoreligious minorities were reluctant to take sides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 806–809.
Published: 01 August 1998
... California) calls the "performative dimensions of Asian and Asian American identities" and the racializing discourses in which these identities are both reproduced and undermined (p. 6). By this Kondo means the processes through which self-identity is made, challenged, performed, and consumed processes which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 805–806.
Published: 01 August 1998
... of Southern California) calls the "performative dimensions of Asian and Asian American identities" and the racializing discourses in which these identities are both reproduced and undermined (p. 6). By this Kondo means the processes through which self-identity is made, challenged, performed, and consumed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1187–1226.
Published: 01 November 2008
... in the formulation of Japanese expansionist orthodoxy before the Pacific War. In the aftermath of institutionalized racial exclusion, Japanese residents in the United States marshaled ideas selectively from Japan's peaceful expansionism and the American popular discourse of frontier conquest to compile their records...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 February 2013
...), thus counter-affecting “the invisibility of Asian-Americans in US racial discourse” (10). Sharma's work also highlights the inappropriate application of theories of white appropriation of blackness, calling instead for a theoretical reading that considers the unique position of South Asian ethnic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 891–910.
Published: 01 November 2020
... nationalism in Korea that deployed anti-American discourses to construct the figure of the tongp'o . 4 Ironically, this minjung ideology was not dissimilar to Park's own conservative ethnic nationalism or to the US racial power structure that pitted racial and ethnic minorities against one another. Yet...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 February 2001
... .” American Anthropologist 96 ( 3 ): 584 –605. Dikötter Frank. 1992 . The Discourse of Race in Modern China . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press . Dikötter Frank. 1994 . “ Racial Identities in China: Context and Meaning ” China Quarterly 138 (June): 404 –12. Dikötter Frank...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 248–276.
Published: 01 May 2000
... , edited by Agawa Hiroyuki , et al. Tokyo : Shūei-sha . Weiner Michael. 1995 . “Discourses of Race, Nation and Empire in pre-1945 Japan.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 18 ( 3 ): 433 –56. Wllson Sandra. 1995 . “The ’New Paradise’: Japanese Emigration to Manchuria in the 1930s and 1940s...