Michael Keevak: 2 books
Becoming Yellow
A Short History of Racial Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
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...
Embassies to China
Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality,...