"Smart, funny, and comprehensive." -Nell Irvin Painter
John Kuo-Wei Tchen is a professor at New York University, the
author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-founder of the
Museum of Chinese in America.
Dylan Yeats is a doctoral candidate at New York University.
Smart, funny, comprehensive, and theoretically astute.
*Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White
People*
A kaleidoscopic study rich in historical depth, topical breadth,
and critical rigor.
*John Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of
World War II*
An insightful new anthology.
*Atlantic*
A comprehensive archive of the underbelly of anxiety and hatred. As
the US economy suffers from acute indigestion, 'China,' like
'Japan' before it, will provide a dishonest salve. Close attention
to the history of the 'yellow peril' will protect the good-minded
from falling deep into the well of is virulence.
*Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History
of the Global South*
This brilliant, well-documented book provides much-needed
historical perspectives on oriental-phobia, and other racist and
racial ways of thinking.
*Jack G. Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood
Vilifies a People*
An exhaustive but not exhausting set of readings.
*Sander L. Gilman, author of Smart Jews and Fat: A
Cultural History of Obesity*
In this illuminating book, Tchen and Yeats address the political
and cultural legacy of yellow perilism, that set of beliefs and
practices stemming from a long tradition of othering, identity
formation, and binary divisions of 'the West' and 'the East' . What
emerges is a compelling case that cultural and political change is
needed, and that change is possible only through 'historical
recognition,' which, Tchen and Yeats say, leads to 'reckoning and
action.'
*Publishers Weekly*
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