When Did East Asians Become Yellow?
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Yellow Peril Redux Project
- Date
- Apr 14, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Speaker
- Michael Keevak, professor of foreign languages at National Taiwan University
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Yangyang Liu
- yl92@illinois.edu
- Views
- 14
Professor Michael Keevak (National Taiwan University) will dig into the intriguing historical process by which East Asians became “yellow.” In their earliest encounters with East Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white, yet by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination?