Andre’s Reviews > The Discourse of Race in Modern China > Status Update

Interesting how Hitlerism did not stop eugenics in China and how under Mao class was basically the same as race and just yet I read about African comrades experiencing racism from Chinese despite the chinese claim of unity against white people.

What those reformers, especially the Tang guy (not that traditionalists are any better), write about improving the yellow race via mixing with whites (and some darker ones, very limited though), sound awfully similar to what I read some years ago in a paper on what I think where celebrities in Hong Kong, it stated that mixed-bloods (mixed with white Americans) are preferred.

The Miao were described as China's aborigines, similar to America's reds or Australia's blacks. The comparison was symbolic: the Miao were doomed to rapid extinction and deserved no further attention.
This reminds me of having read that the Hmong/Miao have the legend that the Chinese once tried to hunt them to extinction.

I forgot something yesterday. Read this little gem:
The Filipinos, normally excluded as black savages, were portrayed as the 'spearhead of the yellow race's fight against the white race' during their struggle against the United States in 1898.6 Japan's success in emulating the West was ascribed to the fact that its race had originated from China"."
Someone really had a high opinion of themselves there.

The notion of a white race was narrowed down to the Anglo-Saxons; all other Westerners simply receded into the background.
That sounds familiar.
And trust me, the fun does not end there:
The Vietnamese and the Filipinos ... were usually classified as 'brown', but during the struggle against the French the Vietnamese suddenly found themselves described as "real yellows"..."

Liang created a new style of writing, foreshadowing the literary revolution of 1917: he loosened the rigid sentence structure of classical Chinese to reshape it into an elegant yet flexible means of communication.
Guess which allegedly so well researched author forgot that?

In China, yellow generally covers a much broader range in the spectrum of colours than in Europe and is perceived as including shades ranging from broken white to light brown. Hence, for instance, the description of blond or brown hair as 'yellow'.
That explains why these texts often state that most Europeans have yellow hair.

China, Korea, Tibet, Vietnam and Burma formed the core of the universe, called huaxia zhi guo, or Chinese states; Japan, Russia, Europe and North America constituted the yidi zhi guo, or States of the Barbarians; and Africa, South America and Australia were relegated to the lowest category, the qinshou zhi guo, or States of the Beasts.