Becoming yellow : a short history of racial thinking /

In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of th...

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Main Author: Keevak, Michael, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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505 0 |a Introduction: no longer white: the nineteenth-century invention of yellowness -- 1. Before they were yellow: East Asians in early travel and missionary reports -- 2. Taxonomies of yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the making of a "Mongolian" race in the eighteenth century -- 3. Nineteenth-century anthropology and the measurement of "Mongolian" skin color -- 4. East Asian bodies in nineteenth-century medicine: the Mongolian eye, the Mongolian spot, and "Mongolism" -- 5. Yellow peril: the threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895--1920. 
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