Discourses of Race and Rising China

2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-25278-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Mapping Global Racisms

While the first edition analysed the historical roots of a racialized Chinese nationalism and its contemporary development, reflected in official ideology, popular culture as well as its perceptions of China in the world, the second edition will add a new chapter focusing on how the genetic science has impacted on national and individual identities in Taiwan and China with implications to the cross-strait relations. It is a concrete example of the new development of the discourse embedded in scientific discussions in mainland China. This new edition shows that, after debunking the fossil-based paleoanthropological myth of Peking Man as the ancestor of the Chinese people, a genetically based national myth has been constructed, showing that a bloodline unites China. It will also include a section discussing how the Chinese party-state sponsors interdisciplinary projects to establish China's status as one of the oldest civilizations with a unique and inherent geopolitical tradition of centralized, unified, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic statehood. The book's last chapter expands on how the CCP’s class-based identity politics shares features with race-based identity politics in world history, with a similar structure and function in both systems’ rhetoric and operations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng, Yinghong

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. "Call a Spade a Spade".- Chapter 2. Two Blacks and One Yellow: Race in Pop Music.- Chapter 3.  Is Peking Man Still Our Ancestor?—Race and National Lineage.- Chapter 4.  Discovering China in Africa: Race and Sino-African Relations.- Chapter 5.  Racism and Its Agents in China.- Chapter 6.  The “Red DNA”: How Discourses of Class and Race Integrate.

Über Autor(innen)

Yinghong Cheng is Professor of History at Delaware State University, USA.