Chinese demographic discourse frames the future as biological racial competition

Evidence

Although eugenic legislation in itself does not inevitably entail the promotion of racial categories of analysis, since it focuses on the genetic fitness of individuals within a country rather than between population groups, some publications in demography none the less make claims about the “biological fitness” of the nation and herald the twenty-first century as an era to be dominated by “biological competition” between the “white race” and the “yellow race.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3352 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chinese elites fused race and culture to make biology primary; Chinese eugenics discourse shifted from individual fitness toward racial competition between nations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3352; Race functions as futurology predicting people’s prospects from group pasts. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1882

Broader Connections

• Chinese eugenics discourse shifted from individual fitness toward racial competition between nations. #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3352