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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Princeton :
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Table of Contents:
- 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.