ABSTRACT
China claimed its national "characteristics" distinctive political and economic approaches towards the goal of national revival and global power rooted in a culture and civilization of unique features for decades. This chapter establishes a Chinese/British comparison to show how racial discourses are expressed in societies with and without a race-related sensitivity, by which a reader especially from outside China can be informed of the existence and specific form of racial thinking in the country since the 1980s. It elaborates the most important elements of this Chinese type of a racialized national identity discourse. The chapter analyzes the party-state's attitude towards it and also reviews some important literature on racism in modern and contemporary China. Discussions on racism and its relationship with nationalism in China, especially contemporary China, are very marginal, despite the fact that the China field has been significantly expanded and ramified with new topics and approaches in recent decades.
