Introduction: time of the locust -- Anti-mainlander prejudice in Hong Kong -- Creating a peculiar racism: colonial modernity and racism in Shanghai and Hong Kong -- Hong Kong infested by mainland visitors? -- Lice! Cockroaches! Locusts!: insect language and racsim -- The anti-locust campaign as ethnic vilification -- Localist leaders and their friends -- Conclusion: punishing the vilifiers?
This volume engages the concept and related notions of cultural hegemony, cultural erosion, cultural hybridity and cultural survival by considering whether five regimes in Asia deploy policies aimed at extirpating the language, religion, arts, customs or other elements of the cultures of non-dominant peoples.
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In COVID-19's first months, US politicians and media forecast that a contrast between Chinese deception and incapability and Western success against the pandemic might fatally sink internal confidence in China's party-state. It would also diminish China externally, as it came to be seen as endangering the world by spreading biological pollution. A "China's Chernobyl" prediction became the latest "China collapse" wish-fulfilment. This rests on two contradictory yet co-existing Yellow Peril tropes: "deceit and incompetence" and "world domination." However, no empirical basis exists for either notion: China prevailed against the pandemic and lacks the capacity for global hegemony. "China's Chernobyl" is most relevant then as a wish that creates a belief, that China should and could collapse. That in turn bolsters the US-led mobilization to counter China as a "strong competitor" and frames China as the common enemy, thereby promoting Western transnational and US internal cohesion. (Pac Aff/GIGA)
