From white to yellow : the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 /

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When Europeans landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. This book traces racial r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kowner, Rotem
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63.
Temas:
Public opinion > Europe > History.
Race > Social aspects > Europe > History.
Racism > Europe > History.
Opinion publique > Europe > Histoire.
Race > Aspect social > Europe > Histoire.
Racisme > Europe > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Travel.
Public opinion.
Public opinion, European.
Race relations.
Race > Social aspects.
Racism.
Japan > Foreign public opinion, European > History.
Europe > Race relations > History.
Japan > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Japan > Description and travel.
Europe > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Japon > Opinion publique européenne > Histoire.
Japon > Descriptions et voyages.
Europe.
Japan.
Electronic books.
Early works.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Phase One. Speculation : Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543). 1. The emergence of "Cipangu" and its precursory ethnography ; 2. The "Cipanguese" at the opening of the age of discovery
  • Phase Two. Observation : A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640). 3. Initial observations of the Japanese ; 4. The Japanese position in contemporary hierarchies ; 5. Concrete mirrors of a new human order ; 6. "Race" and its cognitive limits during the phase of observation
  • Phase Three. Reconsideration : Antecendents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735). 7. Dutch reappraisal of the Japanese body and origins ; 8. Power, status, and the Japanese position in the global order ; 9. In search of a new taxonomy : botany, medicine, and the Japanese ; 10. "Race" and its perceptual limits during the phase of reconsideration
  • Conclusion : The discourse of race in early modern Europe and the Japanese case.

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