It is well established within the field of Critical Whiteness Studies that white privilege routinely materialises in Western universities. Yet, even though a third wave of Critical Whiteness Studies is increasingly focussing on whiteness in non-Western contexts, there has been insufficient attention toward whether white privilege also exists in East Asian universities. This article seeks to explore this issue by offering an autoethnography in which the author, a mixed-race academic who is racialised as white on some occasions and as a person of colour on others, critically interrogates whiteness in East Asian higher education. It is argued that those who are racialised as white are privileged in East Asian universities and may even seek to actively sustain this. In departing from the dominant understanding of whiteness as always-and-only privileging, this article also explores the extent to which white academics in East Asia may also be disadvantaged by their whiteness.

白人特权在西方大学中经常实现，这一点在批判白人研究领域得到了很好的证实。然而，尽管第三波批判白人研究越来越关注非西方背景下的白人，但对东亚大学是否也存在白人特权的关注不足。本文试图通过提供一个自民族志来探索这个问题，作者是一位混血学者，在某些情况下被种族化为白人，在其他情况下被种族化为有色人种，批判性地质疑东亚高等教育中的白人。有人认为，那些被种族化为白人的人在东亚大学享有特权，甚至可能寻求积极维持这一点。