Original
Reconfiguring the Global Color Line: The Paradoxical Discourse of Race in Zou Rong’s Revolutionary Army
Abstract
This article examines the racial discourse of Zou Rong, a 20th-century Chinese radical intellectual, and the puzzling rendering of transnational racial politics at work in his pamphlet The Revolutionary Army . In this text, Zou employs the imported concept of race to refashion Han Chinese identity within a politically motivated global racial taxonomy. He then problematizes the “double enslavement” of the Han race at the trans-imperial nexus of domestic Manchu domination and global white supremacy. Finally, he urges a multifront revolution in China by discursively vindicating Han Chinese racial uplift within a newly reconfigured system of racial hierarchy. In reconstructing the formation and broader political stakes of Zou’s racial discourse, this article centers the deeply contingent and paradoxical alignment of racism and imperialism and the nuanced power relations between peoples of color. It also exemplifies a transnational approach to comparative political theory that focuses on the circulation and negotiation of ideas.
中文
重构全球肤色界线：邹容《革命军》中种族话语的悖论
摘要
本文考察20世纪中国激进知识分子邹容的种族话语，以及其小册子《革命军》中跨国种族政治令人费解的呈现方式。在该文本中，邹容运用输入而来的种族概念，在一个具有政治动机的全球种族分类体系中重塑汉人身份。随后，他将汉民族的“双重奴役”问题化——这种奴役处于国内满族支配与全球白人至上的跨帝国交汇处。最后，他通过在一种新重构的种族等级体系中从话语上为汉人的种族提升辩护，敦促在中国展开多战线革命。在重构邹容种族话语的形成及其更广泛政治意涵的过程中，本文聚焦于种族主义与帝国主义之间深度偶然且悖论性的结盟，以及有色人种之间微妙的权力关系。本文也展示了一种跨国路径的比较政治理论，该路径关注观念的流通与协商。
关键词
邹容、《革命军》、种族话语、全球肤色界线、汉族身份、帝国主义、比较政治理论、跨国主义