Description
Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation.
"Smart, funny, and comprehensive." -Nell Irvin Painter
About the Author
John Kuo-Wei Tchen is a professor at New York University, the author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America.
Dylan Yeats is a doctoral candidate at New York University.
Reviews
Smart, funny, comprehensive, and theoretically astute. -- Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People
A kaleidoscopic study rich in historical depth, topical breadth, and critical rigor. -- John Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
An insightful new anthology. -- Steven Heller * Atlantic *
A comprehensive archive of the underbelly of anxiety and hatred. As the US economy suffers from acute indigestion, 'China,' like 'Japan' before it, will provide a dishonest salve. Close attention to the history of the 'yellow peril' will protect the good-minded from falling deep into the well of is virulence. -- Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
This brilliant, well-documented book provides much-needed historical perspectives on oriental-phobia, and other racist and racial ways of thinking. -- Jack G. Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
An exhaustive but not exhausting set of readings. -- Sander L. Gilman, author of Smart Jews and Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
In this illuminating book, Tchen and Yeats address the political and cultural legacy of yellow perilism, that set of beliefs and practices stemming from a long tradition of othering, identity formation, and binary divisions of 'the West' and 'the East' . What emerges is a compelling case that cultural and political change is needed, and that change is possible only through 'historical recognition,' which, Tchen and Yeats say, leads to 'reckoning and action.' * Publishers Weekly *
Book Information
ISBN 9781781681237
Author Dylan Yeats
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 872g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 24mm