出版社: Princeton University Press
副标题: A Short History of Racial Thinking
出版年: 2011-5-8
页数: 248
定价: USD 41.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780691140315
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only....
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 the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become 'yellow' in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, "Becoming Yellow" explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. From the walls of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which depicted people of varying skin tones including yellow, to the phrase 'yellow peril' at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe and America, Michael Keevak follows the development of perceptions about race and human difference. He indicates that the conceptual relationship between East Asians and yellow skin did not begin in Chinese culture or Western readings of East Asian cultural symbols, but in anthropological and medical records that described variations in skin color. Eighteenth-century taxonomers such as Carl Linnaeus, as well as Victorian scientists and early anthropologists, assigned colors to all racial groups, and once East Asians were lumped with members of the Mongolian race, they began to be considered yellow. Demonstrating how a racial distinction took root in Europe and traveled internationally, "Becoming Yellow" weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. His books include "Sexual Shakespeare," "The Pretended Asian," and "The Story of a Stele".
目录 · · · · · ·
Chapter 1: Before They Were Yellow: East Asians in Early Travel and Missionary Reports
Chapter 2: Taxonomies of Yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the Making of a “Mongolian” Race in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of “Mongolian” Skin Color
Chapter 4: East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Mongolian Eye, the Mongolian Spot, and “Mongolism”
Chapter 5: Yellow Peril: The Threat of a “Mongolian” Far East, 1895–1920
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Chapter 1: Before They Were Yellow: East Asians in Early Travel and Missionary Reports
Chapter 2: Taxonomies of Yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the Making of a “Mongolian” Race in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of “Mongolian” Skin Color
Chapter 4: East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Mongolian Eye, the Mongolian Spot, and “Mongolism”
Chapter 5: Yellow Peril: The Threat of a “Mongolian” Far East, 1895–1920
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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0 有用 sanbilly 2012-04-20 00:58:53
中国人和日本人是怎么变“黄”的。。
0 有用 冯键华 2024-04-06 17:32:39 广东
这本书远离了学术著作的枯燥乏味,成就了一个极为有趣又殊为沉重的历史故事。不仅如此,作者尽管将分析止于20世纪,字里行间却毫不掩饰对书中所言之种族概念的厌恶和鄙夷。然而仔细想想,作为“黄种人”的我们,自身却从来没有对此进行过严肃拷问,就在种族思维早应被摒弃,西方公众媒体亦很难找到诸如“蒙古人种”、“黄种人”之概念的同时,我们仍然无意识地深陷这种无聊且危险的概念漩涡之中。这比起概念背后的真相,也许更让... 这本书远离了学术著作的枯燥乏味,成就了一个极为有趣又殊为沉重的历史故事。不仅如此,作者尽管将分析止于20世纪,字里行间却毫不掩饰对书中所言之种族概念的厌恶和鄙夷。然而仔细想想,作为“黄种人”的我们,自身却从来没有对此进行过严肃拷问,就在种族思维早应被摒弃,西方公众媒体亦很难找到诸如“蒙古人种”、“黄种人”之概念的同时,我们仍然无意识地深陷这种无聊且危险的概念漩涡之中。这比起概念背后的真相,也许更让人不寒而栗。 (展开)
0 有用 Barroquería 2023-03-24 06:44:09 美国
看了intro和第一章我觉得写得太descriptive太superficial了好像怕惹恼四百年前的传教士一样。
0 有用 Sussex 2016-01-23 22:37:30
西方对东亚人的肤色认定自始至终都带着这某种道德评判,这一歧视性评判因物理人类学的发展而不断固化、成为一种”客观事实“而被普遍接受。而西方眼中低劣的黄色在中国被传统文化重新阐释,作为”炎黄子孙“、”黄河“等一系列意象的延续,最后成为了中过民族认同的一部分得以长久保存。
0 有用 伯德兰 2019-11-20 23:17:05
如果有条件看下summary就够了,其中很多介绍古埃及壁画的虽然是比较原创的研究,但是实在提不起兴致来仔细看。
0 有用 冯键华 2024-04-06 17:32:39 广东
这本书远离了学术著作的枯燥乏味,成就了一个极为有趣又殊为沉重的历史故事。不仅如此,作者尽管将分析止于20世纪,字里行间却毫不掩饰对书中所言之种族概念的厌恶和鄙夷。然而仔细想想,作为“黄种人”的我们,自身却从来没有对此进行过严肃拷问,就在种族思维早应被摒弃,西方公众媒体亦很难找到诸如“蒙古人种”、“黄种人”之概念的同时,我们仍然无意识地深陷这种无聊且危险的概念漩涡之中。这比起概念背后的真相,也许更让... 这本书远离了学术著作的枯燥乏味,成就了一个极为有趣又殊为沉重的历史故事。不仅如此,作者尽管将分析止于20世纪,字里行间却毫不掩饰对书中所言之种族概念的厌恶和鄙夷。然而仔细想想,作为“黄种人”的我们,自身却从来没有对此进行过严肃拷问,就在种族思维早应被摒弃,西方公众媒体亦很难找到诸如“蒙古人种”、“黄种人”之概念的同时,我们仍然无意识地深陷这种无聊且危险的概念漩涡之中。这比起概念背后的真相,也许更让人不寒而栗。 (展开)
0 有用 獾小欢 2024-03-16 01:33:42 湖南
补标。高二读的时候简直被惊艳到了,体质人类学又读了一次
0 有用 Barroquería 2023-03-24 06:44:09 美国
看了intro和第一章我觉得写得太descriptive太superficial了好像怕惹恼四百年前的传教士一样。
0 有用 Antony Zhou 2022-04-01 17:55:54
提供了政治文化的棱镜但没有展开不得不说是一种憾事!如果在这种“groupthink”的角度深挖西方种族研究的思想史以及观念背后的文化因素想必更好些。举个例子,讲到西方人逐渐对东亚人“黄色”的认知时只是提出一种correlation(梵蒂冈的描述和同期日本的宗教压迫),但是并没有研究这潜在的causation。第五章黄祸论的展开逻辑也是类似的,观察为主论述为辅。
0 有用 奥博洛莫夫 2020-11-07 03:15:37
没啥意思,就反思种族主义来说,这本很西方中心主义了,完全欧美视角,还把互掐的东亚三国说成一体,也没说东亚三国对于becoming yellow 是如何转换,接受和内化的。都是文献到文献,读起来没啥细读的动力。