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Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Type
Hardcover
Publication Name
Wayne State University Press
Item Height
9.25 inches
ISBN-10
081433198X
ISBN
9780814331989

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
081433198X
ISBN-13
9780814331989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038694578

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pretended Asian : George Psalmanazars Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Hoaxes & Deceptions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime
Author
Michael Keevak
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-028062
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.2/53/092 B
Synopsis
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 country, A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, a highly entertaining account of exotic Asiatic customs, replete with illustrations of Formosan costumes, temples, houses, castles, funeral processions, ships, and coins, as well as examples of the Formosan language and its alphabet. The book quickly went through two editions and appeared in French, Dutch, and German. Psalmanazar's fake Formosan language even became confused as an authentic language sample in the developing field of comparative linguistics. Although he was a blond European, posing as a member of another race was never a problem for Psalmanazar or his audience, since the concept of race, Michael Keevak claims, did not yet exist. In The Pretended Asian, Keevak looks at how Psalmanazar - far from having a difficult time pretending to be East Asian - readily played upon Asian stereotypes and the preconceptions of a public all too eager to learn about the Far East, enabling him to build an identity that could eve
LC Classification Number
CT9981.P78K44 2004

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