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- Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
Sinophobia is a timely and groundbreaking study of the anti-Chinese sentiments currently widespread in Mongolia. Violent anti-Chinese feelings are frequently explained as a consequence of China’s meteoric economic development, a cause of much anxiety for her immediate neighbors and particularly for Mongolia, a large but sparsely populated country that is rich in mineral resources. Other analysts point to deeply entrenched antagonisms and to centuries of hostility between the two groups, implying unbridgeable cultural differences.
Franck Billé challenges these reductive explanations. Through an in-depth analysis of media discourses, Billé shows how stereotypes of the Chinese emerged through an internalization of Russian ideas of Asia, and how they can easily extend to other Asian groups such as Koreans or Vietnamese. He argues that the anti-Chinese attitudes of Mongols reflect an essential desire to distance themselves from Asia overall and to reject their own Asianness. The spectral presence of China, imagined to be everywhere and potentially in everyone, thus produces a pervasive climate of mistrust, suspicion, and paranoia.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- Chapter 1. Rumors, Anxiety, Violence
- pp. 17-45
- Chapter 2. Sinophobia and Excess
- pp. 46-68
- Chapter 5. Corporeal Revolutions
- pp. 121-150
- Chapter 6. Communitas and Performativity
- pp. 151-163
- Chapter 7. Bodies at the Margin
- pp. 164-191
- References
- pp. 219-248
- About the Author
- pp. 257-262
- Back Cover
- p. 263
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824847838
Related ISBN(s)
9780824839826
MARC Record
OCLC
908320776
Pages
311
Launched on MUSE
2015-05-02
Language
English
Open Access
No