Michael Keevak Books
Becoming Yellow: A Short History Of Racial Thinking
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 willin...
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The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar’S Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax
By Michael Keevak, Keevak· Michael·, Keevak, Michael, 1962-
In the summer of 1703, George Psalmanazar traveled to London posing as an East Asian native from Formosa-now modern Taiwan. In the following year, Psalmanazar published a book about his native coun...
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The Story Of A Stele: China'S Nestorian Monument And Its Reception In The West, 1625-1916
Western readers have yet to come to terms with the fact that during much of our history very little was ever “known” about China. There was never any lack of information from missionaries and trave...
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The Story Of A Stele : China'S Nestorian Monument And Its Reception In The West, 1625-1916
Western readers have yet to come to terms with the fact that during much of our history very little was ever “known” about China. There was never any lack of information from missionaries and trave...
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