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The Discourse of Race in Modern China

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Discourse of Race in Modern China

By Frank Dikötter

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About the book

First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation be- came so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they ...Show more

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9781849044882

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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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2015

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1

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The Discourse of Race in Modern China

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