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

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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Main Author: Kowner, Rotem
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montréal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central