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

Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (Vol. 2) examines in depth interactions between Western and local constructions of race. This insightful 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping analysis of issues of race, racism, nationalism and gender in the region 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Walter Demel (Editor), Rotem Kowner (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2015
• EAN: 9789004292925
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29292-5
• No. of pages: 652
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 1150 g
• Series: Brill's Modern East Asia in a
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories