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This chapter further introduces various manifestations of discourses of race in contemporary China and analyzes their agents and how they address the issues in relation to domestic and international problems. As an ideology, racism or racial discourses do not exist for their own sake or by themselves but always reflect power relations that may be addressed in other social hierarchy-based or identity-related discourses. In China today, racial thinking can appear in various discourses addressed to political and ideological needs of the party-state, cultural and intellectual elites as well as ordinary citizens.
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Maoists and Maoist nationalists may admit mistakes or even disasters during Mao’s time, but instead of the loss of millions of lives and crimes against humanity, they emphasize the loss of time for China’s modernization and the victimization of intellectuals as consequences, and apologize both with international circumstances and the party’s political agenda of the time.
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Cheng, Y. (2019). Racism and Its Agents in China. In: Discourses of Race and Rising China. Mapping Global Racisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05357-4_5
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