Becoming yellow : a short history of racial thinking / Michael Keevak.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-210) and index.

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.

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 the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Becoming Yellow explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race.

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Chapter keywords (OCLC record):
Introduction. Making "Peace" with the East; The Pope's Two Letters; Carpini; Rubruck; Ascelin; The Mongols and Religion; An Embassy of Peace; Making Peace; Nestorianism; Christians and Others; Portugal and "Empire"; Tomé Pires; A Tale of Two Brothers; The Folangji; Padrões; Markers of "Discovery"; China as Empire?; Chinese Padrões?; The Portuguese as Inheritors; The King's Letter; The Portuguese Expulsion; Holland and "Trade"; Nieuhof; Trade and Tribute; Dutch Distortions; Schall Magalhães The Dutch Governor's Letter; The Chinese Translation; Divine Commerce; The Emperor's Decree; The Dutch Departure; References; The Pope's "Religion"; The Rites Controversy; Tournon's Motives; The Emperor's Intervention; True vs. False Missionaries; Mezzabarba; The Emperor's Skepticism; Christianity as Heterodox; "Of no consequence"; Russia and "Diplomacy"; The Treaty of Nerchinsk; "Mutual commerce"; Tulišen; Lange; Lange as "consul"; Permanent or Temporary?; "Mr. Agent"; The Treaty of Kiakhta; The Caravans Depart.

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The story of a stele : China's Nestorian Monument and its reception in the West, 1625-1916 / Michael Keevak.
Prologue: The Story of a Stone – 1. A Stone Discovered – 2. The Century of Kircher – 3. Eighteenth-Century Problems and Controversies – 4. The Return of the Missionaries – Epilogue: The Da Qin Temple.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illustrations from the following texts and added keywords: Nestorian monument, Henri Havret, La stèle chrétienne de Si-ngan-fou – Alvaro Semedo, History of the great and renowned monarchy of China – Athanasius Kircher, Prodromus coptus, China illustrata, Crux miraculosa, Andreas Müller Monumenti sinici, monument with musical notation, Christain Mentzel wordlist, Sylloge minutiarum lexici latino-sinico-characterisici – French-Chinese dictionary, Chine illustrée – Johannes Nieuhoff, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces – Marquis d’Argens, Lettres chinoises – Joseph de Mailla, Histoire générale de la Chine – Charles William Wall, An examination of the ancient orthography of the Jews – St. Thomas Cross, Diogo do Couto, Decadas da Asia, João de Lucena, Historia da vida do padre Francisco de Xavier – Cross, Michel Boym, Flora sinensis, Cross from Fujian province, Havret – Manuel Dias, Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan – Louis Gaillard, Croix et swastika en Chine, Baron Henrion, Joh. Ev. Heller, James Legge, The Nestorian monument of Hsi-an Fu, Edouard Chavannes, Mission archéologique dans la Chine septentrionale - Frits Holm, Yü Show, My Nestorian adventure in China - P. Y. Saeki, Keikyo hibun kenkyu, Da Qin pagoda, Beilin.

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