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1 online resource (vii, 197 pages) |
Series |
Edinburgh East Asian studies |
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Edinburgh East Asian Studies series.
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Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Japanese Racial Anomaly -- On the (ir)relevance of studying race -- Subject and scope -- Theoretical framework--the racial middle ground -- Focus and sources -- Structure of the book -- Part I: Race in the Japanese Context: Early Modern Patterns of Differentiation and the Introduction of Race in Modern Japan -- 1 Patterns of Differentiation in Early Modern Japan -- On the existence of race in early modern Japan -- Confucianism and the 'Middle Kingdom' -- Gender and equality in early modern Japan -- Hairy barbarians: Ainu, foreigners and Japanese civilisation -- 2 The Translation of Race in the Meiji Period -- Introducing modernity: the translation of race in the early Meiji period -- Adapting the concept of race -- Part II: A Racial Middle Ground: Negotiating the Japanese Racial Identity in the Context of White Supremacy -- 3 Between Two Races--The Birth of the Racial Middle Ground between Japan and the West -- Japan and the standard of civilisation: the problem of race against civilisation -- Japan, the West and the racial middle ground -- Racial pessimism and the survival of the fittest -- 4 Two Wars and First Successes: From the Port Arthur Massacre to the Treaty of Portsmouth -- Early benefits of the racial middle ground: the Port Arthur Massacre -- 'Yellow fears' of 'yellow peril': race and the Russo-Japanese War -- Agents of the racial middle ground -- 5 Further Successes and the Limits of the Racial Middle Ground -- The California Crisis -- Becoming visible: Japanese immigration to the United States -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese racial identity -- 6 African Americans and the Racial Middle Ground -- The race at the bottom (I): the Black press and the California Crisis -- The race at the bottom (II): the meaning of African Americans for Japan -- Early Japanese views of African Americans -- The 'Black problem' or how to sell Japanese immigrants -- The human aspect of the racial middle ground -- 7 The End of the Racial Middle Ground -- The crisis goes on: the Alien Land Law of 1913 -- Losing appeal: the West, Japan and alternative visions of world orders -- Embracing yellowness: the appeal of Pan-Asianism -- The collapse of the racial middle ground: the Paris Peace Conference -- Conclusion: The Elusive Japanese Race |
Summary |
Considers: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relations |
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"This book retraces the process through which, at the turn of the twentieth century, the Japanese went from a racial anomaly to honorary members of the White race. It explores the interpretation of the Japanese race by Western powers, particularly the United States, during Japan's ascension as a great power between 1853 and 1919. Forced to cope with this new element in the Far East, Western nations such as the U.S. had to device a negotiation zone in which they could accommodate the Japanese and negotiate their racial identity. In this book, Tarik Merida, presents a new tool to study this process of negotiation: the Racial Middle Ground."-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Tarik Merida is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Tarik completed his PhD in 2019 and has published articles in journals including The Asia-Pacific Journal and Japan Review |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2023) |
Subject |
Japanese -- Race identity
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Race relations -- Political aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Race relations -- Political aspects
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SUBJECT |
Japan -- Foreign relations -- 19th century
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140113
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Japan -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069423
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Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States
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Subject |
Japan
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781399506915 |
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1399506919 |
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9781399506922 |
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1399506927 |
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