Techno-Orientalism : : Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media / / ed. by David S. Roh, Greta A. Niu, Betsy Huang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Kathryn,; Bahng, Aimee,; Bascara, Victor,; Choe, Steve,; Chu, Seo-Young,; Crum, Jason,; Fung, Catherine,; Hough, Kenneth,; Huang, Betsy,; Huh, Jinny,; Ishii, Douglas,; Kim, Se Young,; Kosnik, Abigail De,; Liu, Warren,; Niu, Greta A.,; Park, Charles,; Prater, Tzarina T.,; Roh, David S.,; Tran, Julie Ha,; Yeats, Dylan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Allan, Kathryn.; Bahng, Aimee.; Bascara, Victor.; Choe, Steve.; Chu, Seo-Young.; Crum, Jason.; Fung, Catherine.; Hough, Kenneth.; Huang, Betsy.; Huh, Jinny.; Ishii, Douglas S.; Kim, Se Young.; Kosnik, Abigail De.; Liu, Warren.; Niu, Greta A.; Park, Charles.; Prater, Tzarina T.; Roh, David S.; Tran, Julie Ha.; Yeats, Dylan.
• HerausgeberIn: Huang, Betsy,; Niu, Greta A.,; Roh, David S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Asian American Studies Today
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 15 photographs

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, 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. Techno-Orientalis...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction
• Part I. Iterations and Instantiations
• 1. Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America's Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime
• 2. "Out of the Glamorous, Mystic East": Techno-Orientalism in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Radio Broadcasting
• 3. Looking Backward, from 2019 to 1882: Reading the Dystopias of Future Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion
• 4. Queer Excavations: Technology, Temporality, Race
• 5. I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley
• 6. The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as a Mnemotechnics of Twentieth-Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts
• 7. Racial Speculations: (Bio)technology, Battlestar Galactica, and a Mixed-Race Imagining
• 8. Never Stop Playing: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death
• 9. "Home Is Where the War Is": Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront
• Part II. Reappropriations and Recuperations
• 10. Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson's Bridge Trilogy
• 11. Reimagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction
• 12. The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew's Malinky Robot
• 13. Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: or, Joss Whedon's Grand Vision of an Asian/American Tomorrow
• 14. "How Does It Not Know What It Is?": The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Larissa Lai's Automaton Biographies
• 15. A Poor Man from a Poor Country: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens
• Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index