From White to Yellow : The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735.

Cover -- McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Note on Translations and Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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: Antecedents 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese.

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