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Voici une information postée hier sur la liste électronique H-Japan, qui intéressera peut-être les lecteurs de ce blog:Member Publications: New Books on Race, Ethnicity and Racism in Early Modern, Modern, and Contemporary Japan [discussion]by Rotem KownerApologies for cross-postingDear List members,Please allow me to draw your attention to the following publications:New Books on Race, Ethnicity and Racism in Early Modern, Modern, and Contemporary JapanRotem KownerFrom White to Yellow (vol. I): The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 (McGill-Queen's University Press, December 2014).Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel (editors)Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (vol. II): Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage (Brill, May 2015).Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel (editors)Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (vol. I): Western and Eastern Constructions (Brill, paperback edition, September 2014).------------------------------------------------------------&#160;From White to Yellow (vol. I): The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014, 706 pp.) ISBN-10: 0773544550; ISBN-13: 978-0773544550Rotem Kowner (author)[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] From White to Yellow (vol. I): The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735[/caption]When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, I examine of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, I seek to demonstrate that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." All in all, I contend that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, I also attempted to trace the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.For further details: http://www.mqup.ca/from-white-to-yellow-products-9780773544550.phpTable of contentsPrefaceIntroductionPHASE I - SPECULATION: Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543)1 The Emergence of “Cipangu” and Its Precursory Ethnography2 The “Cipanguese” at the Opening of the Age of DiscoveryPHASE II - OBSERVATION: A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640)3 Initial Observations of the Japanese4 The Japanese Position in Contemporary Hierarchies5 Concrete Mirrors of a New Human Order6 “Race” and Its Cognitive Limits during the Phase of ObservationPHASE III - RECONSIDERATION: Antecedents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735)7 Dutch Reappraisal of the Japanese Body and Origins8 Power, Status, and the Japanese Position in the Global Order9 In Search of a New Taxonomy: Botany, Medicine, and the Japanese10 “Race” and Its Perceptual Limits during the Phase of ReconsiderationConclusion: The Discourse of Race in Early Modern Europe and the Japanese CaseAmazon sites:http://www.amazon.ca/White-Yellow-Japanese-European-1300-1735/dp/0773544550/ref=tmm_pap_sw...orhttp://www.amazon.com/White-Yellow-Japanese-European-1300-1735/dp/0773544550/ref=la_B001HP...&#160;Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (vol. II): Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage (Brill, 2015; 674 pp). ISBN-10: 9004292926; ISBN-13: 978-9004292925Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel (editors)[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="195"] Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (vol. II): Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage[/caption]In this sequel to the volume, Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, we examine in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, we also analyze the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, our 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is seemingly unsurpassed in previous scholarship.For further details: http://www.brill.com/products/book/race-and-racism-modern-east-asia-0Table of contents[*] chapters relevant to JapanPreface[*] 1 Introduction: The Synthesis of Foreign and Indigenous Constructions of Race in Modern East Asia and Its Actual OperationRotem Kowner and Walter DemelPART I: ANTECEDENTS2 East Asians in the Linnaean Taxonomy: Sources and Implications of a Racial ImageRotem Kowner and Christina Skott3 Constructing Racial Theories on East Asians as a Transnational “Western” Enterprise, 1750–1850Walter Demel[*] 4 The ‘Races’ of East Asia in Nineteenth-Century European EncyclopaediasGeorg Lehner[*] 5 The Racial Image of the Japanese in the Western Press Published in Japan, 1861–1881Olavi K. FältPART II: INTERACTIONS6 The Propagation of Racial Thought in Nineteenth-Century ChinaDaniel Barth[*] 7 Learning from the South: Japan’s Racial Construction of Southern Chinese, 1895–1941Huei-Ying Kuo[*] 8 “The Great Question of the World Today”: Britain, the Dominions, East Asian Immigration and the Threat of Race War, 1905–1911Antony Best[*] 9 “Uplifting the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia”: American and Indigenous Views of Sport and Body in Early Twentieth-Century East AsiaStefan Hübner[*] 10 Racism under Negotiation: The Japanese Race in the Nazi-German PerspectiveGerhard Krebs[*] 11 Discourses of Race and Racism in Modern Korea, 1890s–1945Vladimir Tikhonov12 The United States Arrives: Racialization and Racism in Post-1945 South KoreaNadia Y. Kim13 A Post-Communist Coexistence in Northeast Asia? Mutual Racial Attitudes among Russians and Indigenous Peoples of SiberiaDavid C. LewisPART III: NATIONALISM14 Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-American Racial Perceptions of the Korean WarLü Xun15 Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Racialized Chinese NationalismYinghong Cheng[*] 16 Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”: The Politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the Depoliticization of JapanesenessYuko Kawai[*] 17 Ethnic Nationalism in Postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and Its Racial FacetsRotem Kowner and Harumi Befu18 Ethnic Nationalism and Internationalism in the North Korean WorldviewTatiana GabroussenkoPART IV: GENDER AND LINEAGE19 In the Name of the Master: Race, Nationalism and Masculinity in Chinese Martial Arts CinemaKai-man Chang[*] 20 Sexualized Racism, Gender and Nationalism: The Case of Japan’s Sexual Enslavement of Korean “Comfort Women”Bang-soon L. Yoon[*] 21 “The Guilt Feeling That You Exist”: War, Racism and Indisch-Japanese Identity FormationAya Ezawa22 ‘The “Amerasian” Knot: Transpacific Crossings of “GI Babies” from Korea to the United StatesW. Taejin HwangPART V: CONCLUSIONS23 The Essence and Mechanisms of Race and Racism in Modern East AsiaRotem Kowner and Walter DemelAmazon site:http://www.amazon.com/Race-Racism-Modern-East-Asia/dp/9004292926/Now in paperback edition!Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (vol. I): Western and Eastern Constructions (Brill, 2014; 618 pp.)  ISBN-10: 9004285504;ISBN-13: 978-9004285507Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel (editors)&#160;[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="195"] Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (vol. I): Western and Eastern Constructions (paperback)[/caption]In Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions we juxtapose 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 21-chapter volume offers an analysis of these constructions, their evolution and their interrelations.For further details: http://www.brill.com/products/book/race-and-racism-modern-east-asiaTable of contentsPreface[*] 1 Introduction: Modern East Asia and the Rise of Racial Thought: Possible Links, Unique Features, and Unsettled IssuesRotem Kowner and Walter DemelPART I: WESTERN RACE THEORIES, RACIAL IMAGES AND RACISM[*] 2 Early Modern European Divisions of Mankind and East Asians, 1500-1750Walter Demel and Rotem Kowner[*] 3 How the “Mongoloid Race” Came into Being: Late Eighteenth-Century Constructions of East Asians in EuropeWalter Demel[*] 4 Between Contempt and Fear: Western Racial Constructions of East Asians since 1800Rotem Kowner[*] 5 “A Very Great Gulf”: Late Victorian British Diplomacy and Race in East AsiaT.G. Otte[*] 6 Pan-Mongolians at Twilight: East Asia and Race in Russian Modernism, 1890-1921Susanna Soojung Lim[*] 7 National Identity and Race in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Pil’niak’s Travelogues from Japan and ChinaAlexander Bukh8 Class, Race, Floating Signifier: American Media Imagine the Chinese, 1870-1900Lenore Metrick-Chen9 Racism for Beginners: Constructions of Chinese in Twentieth Century Belgian ComicsIdesbald Goddeeris10 Race, Imperialism, and Reconstructing Selves: Late Nineteenth Century Korea in European Travel LiteratureHuajeong Seok[*] 11 Race, Culture and the Reaction to the Japanese Victory of 1905 in the English-Speaking WorldPhilip TowlePART II: EAST ASIAN RACE THEORIES, RACIAL POLICIES AND RACISM12 A Certain Whiteness of Being: Chinese Perceptions of Self by the Beginning of European ContactDon J. Wyatt13 Racial Discourse and Utopian Visions in Nineteenth Century ChinaSufen Sophia Lai14 The Discourse of Race in Twentieth-Century ChinaFrank Dikötter15 Racist South Korea? Diverse but not Tolerant of DiversityGi-Wook Shin[*] 16 Skin Color Melancholy in Modern Japan: Male Elites' Racial Experiences Abroad, 1880s-1950sAyu Majima[*] 17 Anatomically Speaking: The Kubo Incident and the Paradox of Race in Colonial KoreaHoi-eun Kim[*] 18 Who Classified Whom, and for What Purpose? The “Japanese” in Northeast China in the Age of EmpireMariko Asano Tamanoi[*] 19 Race and International Law in Japan’s New Order in East Asia, 1938-1945Urs Matthias Zachmann[*] 20 East Asia’s “Melting-Pot”: Reevaluating Race Relations in Japan’s Colonial EmpireYukiko Koshiro[*] 21 Categorical Confusion: President Obama as a Case Study of Racialized Practices in Contemporary JapanChristine R. YanoAmazon site:http://www.amazon.com/Race-Racism-Modern-East-Asia/dp/9004285504/