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Subject(s)

• Race—Social aspects—Europe—History [Browse]
• Public opinion—Europe—History [Browse]
• Japan—Foreign public opinion, European—History [Browse]

Series

• McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63. [More in this series]
• McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; 63

Summary note

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 roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 18, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• 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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ISBN

• 9780773544550
• 0773544550
• 9780773596849
• 0773596844
• 9780773596832
• 0773596836

OCLC

• 1055364882
• 900244282
• 881860180

Doi

• 10.1515/9780773596832

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