Race and Migration in Imperial Japan Contributor(s): Weiner, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415867681 ISBN-13: 9780415867689 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Dewey: 952.004 |
Series: University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies |
Physical Information: 290 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a Japanese race'. |