Han Chinese racism and Malaysian contexts: cosmopolitan racial formations in Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists.
This essay explores what it means to theorize Han racism in Malaysian contexts, where ethnic Chinese constitute a minority. Given the history of Malay political dominance and recent intensification of Malay-Muslim ethno-nationalism as part of a backlash against the historic change of government in 2...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 220 - 238 |
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