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.

Highlights a contemporary non-Western racial discourse that was initially inspired by the Western racism but has evolved Adds to the global racism literature by identifying the roots, the universality and the adaptability of racism This second edition includes an updated Chapter 3 and a new chapter focusing on Taiwan

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

Inhalt

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.