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Afro-Asian filmic duet
Annibaobei
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Chinese century
code-switching
counterculture
Derek Tsang
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free Chinese TV
racial slur
sino-fi
slant eye
social realism
whitewashing
Wuxia Fantasy
yellow kung fu
Product details
- ISBN 9781643363073
- Weight: 151g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2022
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei Ma examines the work of nineteenth-century "Sinophobic" American writers, such as Bret Harte, Jack London, and Frank Norris, and twentieth-century "Sinophiliac" authors, such as John Steinbeck and Philip K. Dick, as well as the movies Crazy Rich Asians and Disney's Mulan and a host of contemporary Chinese authors, to illuminate how cultural stereotypes have swung from fearmongering to an overcompensating exultation of everything Asian. Within this framework Ma employs the Taoist principle of yin and yang to illuminate how roles of the once-dominant American hegemony—the yang—and the once-declining Asian civilization—the yin—are now, in the twenty-first century, turned upside down as China rises to write its side of the story, particularly through the soft power of television and media streamed worldwide.
