Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia In Speculative Fiction, History, And Media (Asian American Studies Today)

To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, 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-Orientalism investigates 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.

• | Author: David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 17, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0813570646
• | ISBN-13: 9780813570648