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. It is the first endeavor to explicitly and coherently link constructions of race and racism in both regions. These constructions have not only played a decisive role in shaping the relations between the West and East Asia since the mid nineteenth century, but also exert substantial influence on current relations and mutual images in both the East-West nexus and East Asia. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this groundbreaking 21-chapter volume offers an analysis of these constructions, their evolution and their interrelations.

Modern East Asia and the rise of racial thought : possible links, unique features and unsettled issues / Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel -- Part one. Western race theories, racial images and racism. Early modern European divisions of mankind and East Asians, 1500-1750 / Walter Demel and Rotem Kowner -- How the "Mongoloid Race" came into being : late eighteenth-century constructions of East Asians in Europe / Walter Demel -- Between contempt and fear : Western racial constructions of East Asians since 1800 / Rotem Kowner -- "A very great gulf" : late Victorian British diplomacy and race in East Asia / T.G. Otte -- Pan-Mongolians at twilight : East Asia and race in Russian Modernism, 1890-1921 / Susanna Soojung Lim -- National identity and race in post-revolutionary Russia : Pil'niak's travelogues from Japan and China / Alexander Bukh -- Class, race, floating signifier : American media imagine the Chinese, 1870-1900 / Lenore Metrick-Chen -- Racism for beginners : constructions of Chinese in twentieth-century Belgian comics / Idesbald Goddeeris -- Race, imperialism and reconstructing selves : late nineteenth-century Korea in European travel literature / Huajeong Seok -- Race, culture and the reaction to the Japanese Victory of 1905 in the English-speaking world / Philip Towle -- Part two. East Asian race theories, racial policies and racism. A certain whiteness of being : Chinese perceptions of self by the beginning of European contact / Don J. Wyatt -- Racial discourse and utopian visions in nineteenth-century China / Sufen Sophia Lai -- The discourse of race in twentieth-century China / Frank Dikötter -- Racist South Korea? : diverse but not tolerant of diversity / Gi-Wook Shin -- Skin color melancholy in modern Japan : male elites' racial experiences abroad, 1880s-1950s / Ayu Majima -- Anatomically speaking : the Kubo Incident and the paradox of race in colonial Korea / Hoi-eun Kim -- Who classified whom, and for what purpose? : the "Japanese" in Northeast China in the Age of Empire / Mariko Asano Tamanoi -- Race and international law in Japan's new order in East Asia, 1938-1945 / Urs Matthias Zachmann -- East Asia's "melting-pot" : reevaluating race relations in Japan's Colonial Empire / Yukiko Koshiro -- Categorical confusion : President Obama as a case study of racialized practices in contemporary Japan / Christine R. Yano.