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Lessons about China and Race from a Detergent Ag

Ho-fung Hung, a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, noted that the nineteenth-century Opium Wars dealt China a blow from which its collective consciousness has yet to fully recover. “The European forces who crushed the Chinese during the war were astoundingly powerful. Chinese intellectuals felt they had so much to learn from them, including [their] ‘developed’ sense of race relations,” he said.

.. On the one hand, racial discrimination is widespread, and ethnic minorities, especially Uighurs and Tibetans, are facing serious institutional discrimination. On the other hand, people don’t like to admit this, and do not even realize it.”