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Sinophobia - Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity (Paperback)
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Sinophobia - Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity (Paperback)
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Sinophobia is a timely and groundbreaking study of the anti-Chinese
sentiments currently widespread in Mongolia. Graffiti calling for
the removal of Chinese dot the urban landscape, songs about killing
the Chinese are played in public spaces, and rumors concerning
Chinese plans to take over the country and exterminate the Mongols
are rife. Such 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
Bille challenges these reductive explanations. Drawing on extended
fieldwork, interviews, and a wide range of sources in Mongolian,
Chinese, and Russian, he argues that anti-Chinese sentiments are
not a new phenomenon but go back to the late socialist period
(1960-1990) when Mongolia's political and cultural life was deeply
intertwined with Russia's. Through an in-depth analysis of media
discourses, Bille 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.
Through its detailed ethnography and innovative approach,
Sinophobia makes a critical intervention in racial and ethnic
studies by foregrounding Sinophobic narratives and by integrating
psychoanalytical insights into its analysis. In addition to making
a useful contribution to the study of Mongolia, it will be
essential reading for anthropologists, sociologists, and historians
interested in ethnicity, nationalism, and xenophobia.
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