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The Tao of S - America's Chinese & the Chinese Century in Literature and Film (Hardcover)
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The Tao of S - America's Chinese & the Chinese Century in Literature and Film (Hardcover)
Series: East-West Encounters in Literature and Cultural Studies
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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.
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