List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: No Longer White: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of Yellowness 1
Chapter 1 Before They Were Yellow: East Asians in Early Travel and Missionary Reports 23
Chapter 2 Taxonomies of Yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the Making of a ¿Mongolian¿ Race in the Eighteenth Century 43
Chapter 3 Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of ¿Mongolian¿ Skin Color 70
Chapter 4 East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Mongolian Eye, the Mongolian Spot, and ¿Mongolism¿ 101
Chapter 5 Yellow Peril: The Threat of a ¿Mongolian¿ Far East, 1895-1920 124
Notes 145
Works Cited 175
Index 211