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SUMMARY:Non-Han bodies: anthropology\, visuality and biopower in China's s
 outhwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) - Zh
 u Jing (University of Warwick)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the biopolitics of non-Han bodies by probi
 ng how ethnicities were classified and conceptualized in Republican China.
  Extensive anthropometric research was carried out on non-Han populations 
 in the southwest during the second Sino-Japanese War\, during which severa
 l anthropologists turned to researching non-Han groups under the rubric of
  frontier politics (边政 _Bianzheng_). Through imagery\, technology and 
 statistics\, Republican scholars sought to generate collective physical tr
 aits for non-Han populations\, in order to justify state interventions\, w
 hether for 'civilizing' the non-Han\, cultivating the frontier\, reclassif
 ying local ethnic groups or constituting a unifying _Zhonghua Minzu_. The 
 paper emphasizes the legacies of late imperial ethnography on Republican f
 rontier governmentality\, in particular the ideas and techniques of repres
 enting racial orders through employing imagery and the body as tools. It t
 hus enriches our understanding of the intersections of science\, visuality
  and frontier biopower in Republican China.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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