{"product_id":"techno-orientalism-imagining-asia-in-speculative-fiction-history-and-media-hardback-9780813570648","title":"Techno-Orientalism; Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Hardback) 9780813570648","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid S. Roh (Edited by), Betsy Huang (Edited by), Greta Aiyu Niu (Edited by), Greta A. Niu (Edited by), David S. Roh (Contributions by), Betsy Huang (Contributions by), Greta Aiyu Niu (Contributions by), Greta A. Niu (Contributions by), Kenneth Hough (Contributions by), Jason Crum (Contributions by), Victor Bascara (Contributions by), Warren Liu (Contributions by), Seo-Young Chu (Contributions by), Abigail De Kosnik (Contributions by), Jinny Huh (Contributions by), Steve Choe (Contributions by), Se Young Kim (Contributions by), Dylan Yeats (Contributions by), Julie Ha Tran (Contributions by), Kathryn Allan (Contributions by), Aimee Bahng (Contributions by), Douglas S. Ishii (Contributions by), Tzarina T. Prater (Contributions by), Catherine Fung (Contributions by), Charles Park (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813570648\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 15 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Taken as a whole, this collection is a useful addition ot the conversation on techno-orientalism. It should prove of interest to both scholars in Asian and Asian American Studies and those with a beginner's understanding of the subject.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Journal of Popular Culture) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Taken as a whole, this collection is a useful addition ot the conversation on techno-orientalism. It should prove of interest to both scholars in Asian and Asian American Studies and those with a beginner's understanding of the subject.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Journal of Popular Culture) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Situating itself at the nexus of Asian and Asian American Studies, \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e covers an exciting range of topics and draws productive connections between literature, popular culture, technology, and the emergent geopolitics of what has been called the Pacific Century. This collection is a vital contribution to global media and cultural studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Peter Paik (author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Situating itself at the nexus of Asian and Asian American Studies, \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e covers an exciting range of topics and draws productive connections between literature, popular culture, technology, and the emergent geopolitics of what has been called the Pacific Century. This collection is a vital contribution to global media and cultural studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Peter Paik (author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe) \u003cdiv\u003e\"'Techno-orientalism' is everywhere. This volume demonstrates for the first time that it is an indispensable critical category for contemporary thought. Any attempt to think globalization, neo-liberalism, and the human is incomplete without it.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Mark C. Jerng (University of California, Davis) \u003cdiv\u003e\"'Techno-orientalism' is everywhere. This volume demonstrates for the first time that it is an indispensable critical category for contemporary thought. Any attempt to think globalization, neo-liberalism, and the human is incomplete without it.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Mark C. Jerng (University of California, Davis) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The editors brilliantly sum up Techno-Orientalism as 'a form of pathology, necessitated by the 'Rising East' rhetoric and rationalized by the neo-liberal logic of (Asian) humans as mortal engines of modernity and economic growth.'\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Muslim World Book Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The editors brilliantly sum up Techno-Orientalism as 'a form of pathology, necessitated by the 'Rising East' rhetoric and rationalized by the neo-liberal logic of (Asian) humans as mortal engines of modernity and economic growth.'\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Muslim World Book Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This anthology usefully introduces an emergent area of Asian American literary and cultural criticism that seeks to bridge what are often separate realms and discourses of analysis: Asian American studies and critical race studies and speculative fiction studies and media studies.\"  \u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian American Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This anthology usefully introduces an emergent area of Asian American literary and cultural criticism that seeks to bridge what are often separate realms and discourses of analysis: Asian American studies and critical race studies and speculative fiction studies and media studies.\"  \u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian American Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism: Imagining Asian Speculative, Fiction, History, and Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and valuable resource for teaching and studying science fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Science Fiction Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism: Imagining Asian Speculative, Fiction, History, and Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and valuable resource for teaching and studying science fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Science Fiction Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, compelling installment in the 'critical countertechnology'  that we must build in order to resist our own sickness.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (Extrapolation) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, compelling installment in the 'critical countertechnology'  that we must build in order to resist our own sickness.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (Extrapolation) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This collection remains vital in an age of magnified surveillance and racialization, and unambiguously establishes that the critique of techno-Orientalism is both imperative and here to stay.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This collection remains vital in an age of magnified surveillance and racialization, and unambiguously establishes that the critique of techno-Orientalism is both imperative and here to stay.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"What happens when we think of techno- orientalism in places like Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, or the Philippines? The volume offers its readers an invitation to think precisely about such omissions. If there’s something troubling about primarily looking to East Asia for signs of the future, what alternative futures might we be able to imagine if we were to look elsewhere?\"\u003c\/div\u003e (ALH Online) \u003cdiv\u003e\"What happens when we think of techno- orientalism in places like Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, or the Philippines? The volume offers its readers an invitation to think precisely about such omissions. If there’s something troubling about primarily looking to East Asia for signs of the future, what alternative futures might we be able to imagine if we were to look elsewhere?\"\u003c\/div\u003e (ALH Online) \u003cdiv\u003e\"As with \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e, the conceptual emphasis in The Buddha in the Machine is on considering how racialized ideas about technology are put into circulation, becoming the racial medium for linking together yet other ideas, technologies, and populations, not simply exposing racial ideology as the grounds for cultural production. Particularly impressive is the care with which Williams unfolds stories of reverse-directionality, as represented most clearly by the chapter on the Chinese American writer Lin Yutang’s lifelong at- tempt to invent and bring to production a Chinese typewriter.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (American Literary History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"As with \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e, the conceptual emphasis in The Buddha in the Machine is on considering how racialized ideas about technology are put into circulation, becoming the racial medium for linking together yet other ideas, technologies, and populations, not simply exposing racial ideology as the grounds for cultural production. Particularly impressive is the care with which Williams unfolds stories of reverse-directionality, as represented most clearly by the chapter on the Chinese American writer Lin Yutang’s lifelong at- tempt to invent and bring to production a Chinese typewriter.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (American Literary History) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A valuable addition to the rela- tively scarce body of scholarship on the topic,\u003ci\u003e Techno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for scholars in Asian American studies, Asian studies, and race\/ethnicity studies, and is a rich source of fresh insight for academics in a range of other fields, including cultural studies, literary criticism, media studies, posthuman theory, speculative fiction studies, and postcolonial studies.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (MELUS) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A valuable addition to the rela- tively scarce body of scholarship on the topic,\u003ci\u003e Techno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for scholars in Asian American studies, Asian studies, and race\/ethnicity studies, and is a rich source of fresh insight for academics in a range of other fields, including cultural studies, literary criticism, media studies, posthuman theory, speculative fiction studies, and postcolonial studies.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (MELUS) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A dynamite collection...full of tight and intricate arguments that will be of value to Asian Americanists, scholars of speculative fiction, and popular culture.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Year's Work in English Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A dynamite collection...full of tight and intricate arguments that will be of value to Asian Americanists, scholars of speculative fiction, and popular culture.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Year's Work in English Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/laist.com\/2019\/11\/18\/blade_runners_2019_los_angeles_then_now_future_past.php\"'\u003e\"How The Dark Future Of Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles Looks In The Light Of Actual Today,\" by LAist staff\u003cbr\u003e https:\/\/laist.com\/2019\/11\/18\/blade_runners_2019_los_angeles_then_now_future_past.php\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (LAist) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/laist.com\/2019\/11\/18\/blade_runners_2019_los_angeles_then_now_future_past.php\"'\u003e\"How The Dark Future Of Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles Looks In The Light Of Actual Today,\" by LAist staff\u003cbr\u003e https:\/\/laist.com\/2019\/11\/18\/blade_runners_2019_los_angeles_then_now_future_past.php\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (LAist) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/orientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction\/?mbid=social_twitterutm_brand=wiredutm_medium=socialutm_social-type=ownedutm_source=twitter\"'\u003e\"Orientalism, \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk 2077\u003c\/i\u003e, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction: Cyberpunk as a genre, and \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk 2077\u003c\/i\u003e the game, are both rooted in a type of other-ization that can’t be ignored-but it can be examined,\" by George Yang\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Wired) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/orientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction\/?mbid=social_twitterutm_brand=wiredutm_medium=socialutm_social-type=ownedutm_source=twitter\"'\u003e\"Orientalism, \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk 2077\u003c\/i\u003e, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction: Cyberpunk as a genre, and \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk 2077\u003c\/i\u003e the game, are both rooted in a type of other-ization that can’t be ignored-but it can be examined,\" by George Yang\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Wired) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Techno-orientalism was first coined in Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e Press’ 2015 book \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media\u003c\/i\u003e. Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang and Greta A. Niu, it investigates the phenomenon of how Asia and Asians are represented in hypo- or hyper-technological terms, 'while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.'\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Hollywood Reporter) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Techno-orientalism was first coined in Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e Press’ 2015 book \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media\u003c\/i\u003e. Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang and Greta A. Niu, it investigates the phenomenon of how Asia and Asians are represented in hypo- or hyper-technological terms, 'while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.'\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Hollywood Reporter) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org\/episodes\/asian-futures-without-asians\"'\u003e\"Episode 193: Asian Futures Without Asians\"\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Imaginary World podcast) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org\/episodes\/asian-futures-without-asians\"'\u003e\"Episode 193: Asian Futures Without Asians\"\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Imaginary World podcast) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/where-the-future-is-asian-and-the-asians-are-robots\"'\u003e\"Where the Future is Asian, and the Asian Are Robots,\" by Jane Hu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (New Yorker) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/where-the-future-is-asian-and-the-asians-are-robots\"'\u003e\"Where the Future is Asian, and the Asian Are Robots,\" by Jane Hu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (New Yorker)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhat will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu to \u003ci\u003eFirefly\u003c\/i\u003e.  Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia’s growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTechnologizing Orientalism: An Introduction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart I   Iterations \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Instantiations\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 1   Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America’\u003cbr\u003es Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 2   “\u003cbr\u003eOut of the Glamorous, Mystic East”\u003cbr\u003e: Techno-Orientalism in Early Twentieth-Century United States Radio Broadcasting\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 3   Looking Backward from 2019 to 1882: Reading the Dystopias of Future Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 4   Queer Excavations: Technology, Temporality, Race\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 5   I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 6   The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as an Mnemotechnics of 20th Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 7   Racial Speculations: (Bio)Technology, Battlestar Galactica, and Mixed-Race Imagining\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 8   “\u003cbr\u003eNever Stop Playing”\u003cbr\u003e: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 9   “\u003cbr\u003eHome Is Where the War Is”\u003cbr\u003e: Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart II   Reappropriations \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Recuperations\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 10   Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’\u003cbr\u003es Bridge Trilogy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 11   Re-imagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 12   The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew’\u003cbr\u003es Malinky Robot\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 13   Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: Or, Joss Whedon’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003egrand vision of an Asian\/American tomorrow”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 14   “\u003cbr\u003eHow Does It Not Know What It Is?”\u003cbr\u003e: The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott’\u003cbr\u003es Blade Runner and Larissa Lai’\u003cbr\u003es Automaton Biographies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 15   “\u003cbr\u003eA Poor Man from a Poor Country”\u003cbr\u003e: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDesiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559350563096,"sku":"9780813570648","price":84.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/techno-orientalism-imagining-asia-in-speculative-fiction-history-and-media-hardback-9780813570648","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}