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Mapping Global Racisms Series Editor Ian Law School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds Leeds, UK Tere is no systematic coverage of the racialisation of the planet. Tis series is the frst attempt to present a comprehensive mapping of global racisms, providing a way in which to understand global racialisation and acknowledge the multiple generations of diferent racial logics across regimes and regions. Unique in its intellectual agenda and innovative in producing a new empirically-based theoretical framework for under- standing this glocalised phenomenon, Mapping Global Racisms consid- ers racism in many underexplored regions such as Russia, Arab racisms in North African and Middle Eastern contexts, and racism in Pacifc contries such as Japan, Hawaii, Fiji and Samoa. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14813 Yinghong Cheng Discourses of Race and Rising China Yinghong Cheng Delaware State University Dover, DE, USA Mapping Global Racisms ISBN 978-3-030-05356-7 ISBN 978-3-030-05357-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05357-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018967269 © Te Editor(s) (if applicable) and Te Author(s) 2019 Tis work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifcally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microflms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Cover image: © Suchart Doyemah/EyeEm/Getty Images Tis Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG Te registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgements I want to express my gratitude to Ian Law (University of Leeds). Ian, as an expert on global racism and the editor of Mapping Global Racism series, and I started communication on the subject several years ago. With his interest in the global implications of the discourse of race in China and his suggestions in mind, I wrote the book as a contribution to the book series. I also would like to thank Sharla Plant and Poppy Hull at Palgrave Macmillan for their interest in the book and editorial work on it. I have been encouraged and inspired by scholars in diferent felds and their help has guided me to the same end: an understanding of dis- courses of race in China in a global context of racialization and in a domestic context of ethnic relations. I am indebted to Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh), my dissertation advisor and long-time schol- arly supporter, who read and commented on many parts of the book’s manuscript. I also owe gratitude to Edward Friedman (University of Wisconsin) for his comments and suggestions on many parts of the manuscript as they were in the form of research articles. Te com- munication with James Leibold (La Trobe University), an expert on Chinese nationalism and ethnicity, was one of the most valuable v vi Acknowledgements scholarly inspirations I have received for this project. I particularly want to thank Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) for his strong support and critical suggestions especially during the time of my fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in 2011 (Prasenjit was then the director of the Institute), when I began work on several topics which were eventually all incorporated into this book. I would like to thank Frank Dikötter (University of Hong Kong), with whom I communicated through emails, for his groundbreaking work in the feld and his insight and critical thoughts about racial thinking in Chinese society. Rotem Kowner (University of Haifa) and Walter Demel (University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich) invited me to participate in a conference and included my paper on Chinese racial thinking expressed in pop music in their coedited Race and Racism in Modern East Asia. Te content of the paper is now absorbed into the book. Kevin Carrico (Macquarie University) shared with me his work on the Han Clothing movement when it was still a Ph.D. dissertation and has provided me with many important sources on race and nation- alism in China. Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi (University of Bern) also shared with me her work on the Han as China’s diverse majority. I also want to thank the editors and reviewers of Te China Quarterly and Te Journal of Asian Studies for their feedback on my articles. Te content of those articles is now also integrated into the book. In particular, I thank Akwasi Osei (Delaware State University) and Marshall Stevenson (University of Maryland East Shore) who have broadened my vision especially with their knowledge of and insights on Africa, African-Americans, and Sino-African relations. As a person of Chinese heritage engaged in critical studies of Chinese society and culture, I would like to express my gratitude to my Chinese friends in academia who understand and have supported my work in various ways. Wu Guoguang (University of Victoria) invited me to par- ticipate in a conference and eventually included my paper in a book he edited (China’s Transition from Communism—New Perspectives). His comments on my paper in the book’s conclusion highlighted the polit- ical signifcance of the discourse of race in China’s post-Mao transition. Yang Bin (University of Macao) has been my long-time academic col- league with whom I had numerous discussions on Chinese nationalism Acknowledgements vii and ethnicity. He especially alerted me to the fact that the concept of race was misused in intra-Chinese relations until the concept of ethnic- ity came into being. Yao Xingyong (Jinan University) shared with me his knowledge, life experience, and insights regarding ethnic nationalism in China. Du Chunmei (Lingnan University) has helped me for years with her expertise in modern Chinese intellectual history and Sino- foreign perceptions. Zhang Jianhua (Beijing Normal University) shared with me his expertise on Russian history and racial thinking. Wang Yuanchong (University of Delaware) helped me to understand impe- rial China’s ethnic and frontier visions. Zhou Lian (Renmin University) has discussed with me race-related social and intellectual problems in contemporary China. Liu Xiaopeng (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) shared with me his book and articles on Sino-African rela- tions from a race-studies perspective. Jiang Huajie (Eastern China Normal University) shared with me his research on African students in China and informed me of other related historical issues. Qiu Jing (Guangdong Polytechnic University) enriched my knowledge about China’s ethnic minorities. Fang Kecheng (Ph.D. candidate at University of Pennsylvania) informed me of the role of social media in my research subject. I, in particular, appreciate discussions with Tsai Mon-Han (Chiba University) and Wang Ke (Kobe University), two historians in Japan, which fne-tuned my analysis on modern Chinese nationalism. Outside professional academics, I owe many individuals (many of them are writers or work for Chinese media) who discussed with me race-related issues in contemporary China, helped in locating impor- tant sources, or alerted me new developments. I want thank Chen Xubin, Duan Yuhong, Gu Yinsheng, Li Xiaen, Luo Silin, Qian Lang, Tao Xiaolu, Zhu Tianyuan, and many others for their support that I can always count on. I want to thank Delaware State University, my home institution, for its research grants. I also owe gratitude to the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute and the East Asia Institute, for their fellowships in the early stage of my work on the subject. I especially want to thank Ying, Mimi, and Evan for their patience, tolerance and support during the time I committed to this project. Contents 1 “Call a Spade a Spade” 1 2 Two Blacks and One Yellow: Race in Pop Music 27 3 Is Peking Man Still Our Ancestor?—Race and National Lineage 99 4 Discovering China in Africa: Race and the Chinese Perception of Africa and Black Peoples 161 5 Racism and Its Agents in China 239 6 Te “Red DNA”: How Discourses of Class and Race Integrate 295 References 305 Index 327 ix Character Glossary Translation (Arranged in Alphabetical Order in English) 海外赤子 ( haiwaichizi) a loyal Child of Overseas Chinese 神农 (shennong) agricultural God 援非 (yuanfei) aid to Africa 海内外中华儿女 ( haineiwai zhonghuaernu) all sons and daughters of the Chinese all over the world 天下 (Tianxia) all under heaven 屌丝 ( diaosi) an extremely obscene term used to denigrate “losers” 愤青 (fengqing) angry youth 颜值 (yanzhi) appearance value 正黑鬼油 ( zheng heigui you) authentic