{"id":785,"date":"2023-05-25T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/transpacific-studies\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2023-05-31T12:36:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:36:02","slug":"rethinking-race-and-ethnicity-in-imperial-china","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/rethinking-race-and-ethnicity-in-imperial-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\">&lt; Back to Events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/racesolidarity_transpacific_conversations_-_rethinking_race_and_ethnicity_in_imperial_china\" \n         target=\"_blank\"                 class=\"\" \n      >Race\/Solidarity: Transpacific Conversations Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China &#8211; Shao-yun Yang<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 | 4:00PM &#8211; 5:00PM (PT) | ZOOM REGISTRATION<\/p>\n<p>Please join the next <strong>Race\/Solidarity: Transpacific Conversations series<\/strong> event on Friday, October 29! In this webinar session, USC Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/bettine-birge\/\">Bettine Birge<\/a> invites <a href=\"https:\/\/denison.edu\/people\/shao-yun-yang\">Shao-yun Yang<\/a>, Associate Professor of East Asian history and Director of the East Asian Studies program at Denison University.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, historians have debated the question of whether concepts equivalent to race and racism existed in premodern Chinese ethnic discourse. Unfortunately, this discussion has been hindered by reliance on an inadequate nineteenth-century practice of classifying identities as racial, cultural, or national. In this talk, Professor Yang will propose a new conceptual framework for analyzing imperial Chinese ethnic discourses and argue that certain discourses previously characterized as racist could be more usefully interpreted as two distinct but related traditions of foreign relations thinking that he terms \u201ccivilization-state discourse\u201d and \u201cChinese supremacism.\u201d Please register for the event if you would like to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/racesolidarity_transpacific_conversations_-_rethinking_race_and_ethnicity_in_imperial_china\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Race\/Solidarity: Transpacific Conversations Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China - Shao-yun Yang\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/ImperialCHina.jpg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Event poster\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-785","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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