books.google.co.uk - 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...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Becoming_Yellow.html?id=ZmHNk38OgDEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBecoming Yellow