What is it about?
A book chapter in Walter Demel and Rotem Kowner (eds.), Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Interactions, Nationalism and Gender (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publisher, 2015), pp. 151-177.
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Why is it important?
This study is helpful to understand the Japanese tactics of penetrating into different clusters of Chinese communities in Taiwan, South China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia at least two decades before the Pacific War
Perspectives
The Japanese ethnographical research on the different speech-groups from Fujian and Guangdong of South China helps understand the diversity among the people conventionally known as Han Chinese
Dr Huei-Ying Kuo
Johns Hopkins University
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This page is a summary of: 7 Learning from the South: Japan’s Racial Construction of Southern Chinese, 1895–1941, January 2015, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004292932_008.
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