Race and Racism in Modern East Asia - Western and Eastern Constructions

Race and Racism in Modern East Asia juxtaposes Western racial constructions of East Asians with constructions of race and their outcomes in modern East Asia. This groundbreaking volume also offers an analysis of these constructions, their evolution and their interrelations.

About the author

Rotem Kowner , 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 , Professor of early modern history at the University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany. He has mainly published on the Bavarian and German politics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, on the history of the European nobility, and on the relations between Europe and East Asia, particularly the perceptions of China and Japan.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2014
• EAN: 9789004285507
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28550-7
• No. of pages: 618
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 953 g
• Series: Brill's Modern East Asia in a
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories