(Download Book) Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media - David S. Roh

Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

By : David S. Roh

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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-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.??The 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 Firefly. ?Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key

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Author : David S. Roh

Pages : 272 pages

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

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ISBN-10 : 0813570638

ISBN-13 : 9780813570631

 

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