viii, 219 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-210) and index.
Contents
No longer white: the nineteenth-century invention of yellowness -- Before they were yellow: east Asians in early travel and missionary reports -- Taxonomies of yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the making of a "Mongolian" race in the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century anthropology and the measurement of "Mongolian" skin color -- East Asian bodies in nineteenth-century medicine: the Mongolian eye, the Mongolian spot, and "Mongolism" -- Yellow peril: the threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895-1920.
