[PMJS] New book: A Hardening Hierarchy: The Japanese in the Global Formation of Racial Ideologies, 1735–1854

[Rotem Kowner]

Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, 

A Hardening Hierarchy: The Japanese in the Global Formation of Racial Ideologies, 1735–1854,

published earlier this month by McGill-Queen’s University Press:

https://www.mqup.ca/Books/A/A-Hardening-Hierarchy2

While this volume stands on its own, it also serves as a sequel to my earlier study,

From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300–1735 (MQUP, 2014)

For a newly released Chinese translation of From White to Yellow is now available:

从白到黄：欧洲种族思想中的日本，1300—1735 (Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, 2026),

translated by Kang Jie (康洁)

https://book.douban.com/subject/36968002/

For those of you in Hong Kong, please note these two related talks I will be delivering soon:

Antecedents of the "Century of Humiliation”: Shifting Western and Japanese Views of Mid-Qing China (1750–1850)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, October 14, 2026, 16:30-18:00.

For details: Prof. Joshua Derman <hmde...@ust.hk>

Seeds of Conflict: Mutual Racial Perceptions in Late Edo Japan and the West

Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 28, 2026, 14:30-16:00.

For details: Ms. Misaki Nagaoka <mnag...@cuhk.edu.hk>

Best regards,

Rotem Kowner

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Dr. Rotem Kowner

Historian, Professor of Japanese Studies

Department of Asian Studies, The University of Haifa

199 Abba Khoushy Ave., Mt. Carmel, POB 3338

Haifa 3103301, ISRAEL

Tel: (972) 4828-8501 Fax: (972) 4828-8539

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