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The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. Edited by Christopher P. Hanscom and Dennis Washburn . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. vi, 365 pp. ISBN: 9780824852801 (cloth).

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The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. Edited by Christopher P. Hanscom and Dennis Washburn . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. vi, 365 pp. ISBN: 9780824852801 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Rotem Kowner
Rotem Kowner*
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University of Haifa
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kowner@research.haifa.ac.il
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 77 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 251 - 255
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 

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